Kim Kardashian Files For Divorce From Kris Humphries

First Launched: October 31, 2011 1:42 PM EDT Credit: Getty Premium Caption Kris Humphries and Kim Kardashian show on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno at NBC Art galleries in Burbank, Calif. on October 4, 2011LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Kim Kardashian is proclaiming divorce from Kris Humphries, Access Hollywood has confirmed. A repetition for Kim has confirmed to get into that only 72 days after walking lower the aisle, the reality star as well as the Basketball player say they have had enough. In their filing, Kim cites irreconcilable versions as the explanation for the divorce as well as the date of separation turns up as today, March. 31, 2011. In line with the divorce filing, Kim who hired famous lawyer Laura Wasser is asking that Kris purchase their very own lawyer costs which spend perform exactly the same. She also asks legal court to reject any attempt by Kris to acquire spousal support. Ryan Seacrest, who produces numerous Kardashian reality shows on E!, also Tweeted what is the news on Monday morning. Yes @kimkardashian is proclaiming divorce today. I touched base along with her, he Tweeted. The other day, Kims brother Make the most of Kardashian addressed gossips that his sister and new brother-in-law were getting relationship worries telling Access that Kim was happy. Thats everybody who are around you that people live in its about trying to part ways wedding couple or trying to produce drama over nothing we've never required directly into people comments, the Dwts contestant told Access on October 27. My sister is completely happy, my familys never been more comfortable, she got married so she needs to be happy. (See Make the most of discuss Kims rumored relationship issues, HERE!) The happy couple apparently features a prenuptial agreement. A repetition for Kim wasn't readily available for comment when contacted by Access Hollywood on Monday morning. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Football triumphs in primetime

Despite another Nfl blowout in primetime, NBC acquired its typical victory with "Sunday Evening Football," while favorite anecdotes and treehouses of horror introduced scripted programming.The Philadelphia Eagles' 34-7 romp inside the Dallas Cowboys came a very preliminary 8.2 rating and 19 share among audiences 18-49 and 19.3 million audiences overall. This figure, which figures to revise upward when the mid-day amounts can be found in, came despite the fact that TV viewing in Philadelphia was restricted with the weekend snow storm inside the northeast. "Sunday Evening Football" lost only to an overrun of CBS' mid-day Nfl coverage (9.1/26, 27.9 million) that bled to the first halfhour of primetime. That consequently aided enhance the overall audience of "an hourInch (4.2/11, 18.3 million), which featured interviews with billed Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff's wife Ruth and boy Andrew.CBS adopted with "The Astounding Race" (2.9/7, 10.9 million), "The Truly Amazing Wife" (2./5, 10.2 million) and "CSI: Miami" (2./6, 9.5 million).At 8 p.m., ABC's "Not such a long time ago" (3.9/9, 11.6 000 0000) virtually matched up up its week-ago premiere amounts and was assigned in scripted efforts among audiences 18-49 only with the 22nd "Treehouse of Horror" episode of "The Simpsons" (4./10, 8. million). Roughly 40% of fans in the latter left before searching in the series premiere of Jonah Hill animated project "Allen Gregory" (2.4/6, 4.7 million). Leading the 9 p.m. timeslot inside the demo among non-sports programming was Fox's "Family Guy" (3.2/7, 6. million) and ABC's "Desperate Regular folksInch (3.1/7, 9.3 million). At 10 p.m., ABC's "Pan Am" (1.9/5, 5.6 000 0000) ongoing to become relatively consistent.Preliminary 18-49 earnings for your evening: NBC 6.7/16, CBS 3.7/9, Fox 2.7/7, ABC 2.5/6.In general audiences: NBC 16.8 million, CBS 14.5 million, ABC 7.9 million, Fox 5.6 000 0000. Contact Jon Weisman at jon.weisman@variety.com

Estate sues over 'Adjustment' pay

The estate of Philip K. Dick filed suit against MRC, director George Nolfi and producer Michael Hackett on Thursday, contending that they reneged on an agreement for a share of the returns from "The Adjustment Bureau" by claiming that the short story on which it was based was in the public domain. Suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles by Laura Archer Dick Coelho, asserts the makers of "The Adjustment Bureau" essentially backed out of an agreement for the rights to the Dick story "The Adjustment Team" by citing issues with the work's copyright status. What's more, the suit states, the makers even demanded the return of prior payments for the rights. The Philip K. Dick Trust claims that the story remains protected by copyright, but their suit outlines the source of the dispute: Dick wrote "The Adjustment Team" in 1953, and the story first appeared in a 1954 issue of Orbit Science Fiction, a "third-rate pulp" that lasted only five issues. Although the contents were registered then with the U.S. Copyright Office, they were not renewed. The trust, repped by Justin Goldstein and Jay Handlin at Carlsmith Ball, says that Dick never authorized the publication in Orbit, and there is no evidence that he received payment. Their suit suggests that Dick's literary agent, Scott Meredith, "phonied up" the publication to "generate bogus, bargain-price sales of works" by his clients "that he had failed to sell legitimately." The sham "sales," the trust contends, was concealed from Dick and therefore did not trigger a copyright. Instead, they say that the copyright for "The Adjustment Team" was really in 1973, in a collection of stories called "The Book of Phillip K. Dick," and that it remains in effect. The suit states that "even if 'Adjustment Team' were in the public domain (which it is not), it is unquestionably protected by copyright in countries around the world." Dick died in 1982. A spokeswoman for MRC said they had not yet seen the complaint and did not yet have a comment. Suit states that after Nolfi spent nearly a decade adapting the project and extending his options to the story, he assigned it to MRC, which then paid $1.4 million to the Dick Trust for the rights in 2009. The Dick Trust says that it was owed additional compensation based on an agreement giving them 2.5% of the net profits and "deferment" payments as the movie reached breakeven status. The Trust contends that in January, 2010, Nolfi's counsel began inquiring whether "Adjustment Team" might be in the public domain. Five days later, the Wikipedia entry for the story "was modified by an anonymous user to state" that the story was, indeed, in the public domain. Contact Ted Johnson at ted.johnson@variety.com

Kerry Washington Cast in Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained'

Things might not have exercised for Kevin Costner in 'Django Unchained,' however it appears like director Quentin Tarantino is continuing to move forward regardless. Based on Deadline, actress Kerry Washington has arrived charge role in Tarantino's approaching Western. She'll play Broomhilda, the wife of Django (Jamie Foxx), causeing this to be the 2nd time Washington plays the spouse of the Jamie Foxx character (she described Della Bea Robinson in 'Ray). The actress joins a cast that already includes Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz, Don Manley, Kurt Russell and Samuel L. Jackson 'Django Unchained' is going to be Tarantino's homage to Spaghetti Westerns. The film follows former slave Django, who heads to the plantation to free his wife from owner Calvin Candie (DiCaprio). On the way, he will get the aid of a fugitive hunter (Waltz). Tarantino's last movie was 2009's 'Inglorious Basterds.' 'Django Unchained' is presently slated for any Christmas Day release in 2012. [via Deadline] [Photo: Getty Images for Rob Lauren] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Producers partner on 3d toon 'Nut House'

Vanguard Animation is joining track of Arc Prods. on its CG 3d animated heist film, "The Nut House" with production to start within the month of the month of january. Ross Venokur making his directorial debut using their own script with John Grain also pointing. SC Films Worldwide is handling worldwide sales efforts within the approaching American Film Market. The story begins when mega-conglomerate Nut House Nuts harvests the forest due to its very own commercial gain and ex-disadvantage squirrel plans the heist in the century -- entering our prime-security packaging plant to reclaim the nuts using his trusty, right-hands porcupine plus an elite team of scrappy forest citizens. Film will probably be produced by John Williams and "Kung Fu Panda" director John Stevenson. Williams creating credits are the initial few "Shrek" films, "Valiant," "Space Chimps" as well as the approaching "On the road,In . directed by Walter Salles. Geneva Wasserman, longtime certification professional in feature animation, may also be an expert producer and may mount an worldwide certification and selling program for "The Nut House." Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

'Happy Days' fraud claim rejected

A La judge released a fraud claim filed by cast people from "Happy Days" charging that CBS never designed to pay them back money for merchandise sales in line with the classic sitcom. Anson Williams, Don Most, Marion Ross and Erin Moran, together with the widow of Tom Bosley, punished CBS taken not under $ten million, proclaiming they weren't provided revenue claims within the show, even though their likeness was utilized on from Digital video disks to slots. La Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Allen White-colored released their fraud claim, nonetheless they can proceed around the breach of contract claim. "We are thrilled a legal court has thrown out all claims for punitive damages and substantially simplified this with a situation of contract interpretation," CBS mentioned in the statement. The actors' attorney, Jon Pfeiffer, could not immediately be showed up at. But he told CNN they intend to proceed while using suit. "Once we can't punish the accused, we certainly intend to expose their practices," he mentioned. "Happy Days" broadcast on ABC from 1974 to 1984 but Vital Television, since folded into CBS, produced the series. Contact Ted Manley at ted.manley@variety.com

See Matt Saracen and Arnold Schwarzenegger round the Number of 'The Last Stand'

There's an unofficial rule at Moviefone: if Matt Saracen Zach Gilford and Arnold Schwarzenegger will be in a picture together, it ought to be released round the blog. Consequently: look at this picture the first kind Governator tweeted within the number of 'The Last Stand,' his first starring vehicle since departing office. It features Gilford! And Arnold! Texas forever, folks! In 'The Last Stand' Schwarzenegger plays a border-town sheriff designated with stopping an steered obvious of drugkin from crossing over into Mexico. Gilford co-stars as his deputy, with Forest Whitaker, Luis Guzman, Jaimie Alexander, Rodrigo Santoro, Peter Stormare and Johnny Knoxville rounding the cast. The film comes to theaters on Jan. 18, 2013. [via @schwarzenegger] [Photo: Twitpic] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED

The brand new the new sony scales back 'Anonymous' release

In the short-notice calendar development, The brand new the new sony has scaly back on Roland Emmerich's "Anonymous," beginning the film limited as opposed to a country wide release on March. 28. The brand new the new sony launched the alteration Monday on Rentrak. It is not uncommon for just about any studio to change its strategy for just about any film's release, especially if it's made to build word-of-mouth for just about any mostly adult-skewing pic like "Anonymous." But using this method 2 days just before the film's bow, The brand new the new sony likely is responding to Paramount's thumping within the launch of "Puss in Boots" from November. 4. While "Puss in Boots" will mainly target families, also beginning March. 28 in wide release are Fox's sci-fier "Over TimeInch and FilmDistrict's "The Rum Diary." The brand new the new sony still expects to bow "Anonymous" in many major U.S. areas at roughly 250 locations. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com

SyFy Orders Haunted Schools Reality Series

Syfy already has several reality series about the paranormal, led by Ghost Hunters. Now the cable network has ordered another one, School Spirits from executive producers Mark Burnett (Survivor) and Seth Jarrett (Celebrity Ghost Stories). The six-episode series will tell true ghost stories of hauntings that have happened at schools across the country. The stories will be told through the testimonials of real students, teachers, parents and staff that have encountered the paranormal activity and cinematic reenactments.

Cheers & Jeers: The Big Bang Theory The Next Vituperation

Brent Spiner Cheers for the Large Bang Theory for finding an out-of-this-world new archenemy for Sheldon. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! Just when Jim Parsons' geek god had finally pardoned Wil Wheaton for neglecting to look inside a Star Trek convention in the past-the actor apologized and gave Sheldon his last Wesley Crusher action figure-Next Generation castmate Brent Spiner joined the champion grudge-holder. His offense: tearing these toy from the original packaging. Spiner-who's formerly displayed his comedy chops in from Pals for the Jack Lemmon-Walter Matthau movie To Sea-slyly spoofed themselves, tallying showing up at Leonard's special birthday for just about any tiny fee. Oh, and what he mentioned they used associated with their small-me dolls on generation x set brings new meaning to action figure. Whoever else consider last night's Large Bang Theory? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Official: Disney's 'Lone Ranger' Sets May 31, 2013 Release Date

It's official: Disney's Lone Ranger has set a May 31, 2013 release date, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.our editor recommends'Lone Ranger' Announcer Fred Foy Dies'Lone Ranger': Director, Producer Offer to Trim Costs as Budget Fight Rages PHOTOS: The Actor-brad Pitt's Most Memorable Career Moments Budget discussions triggered the film to overlook its original fall start date. PHOTOS: Inside 'Pirates from the Caribbean' However the Western, that was initially allocated at $250 million, continues to be cut lower to $215 million. As THR first reported, the creatives involved will reduce their costs: no $20 million for The Actor-brad Pitt, no $ten million each for producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski, out of the box their norm on tentpoles. ANALYSIS: Why Disney Will Make 'Lone Ranger' -- Unwillingly A resource also states the filmmakers will sacrifice their back-finish participation when the film is available in over budget, a substantial incentive to operate a good ship. The studio informs THR inside a statement: "The Actor-brad Pitt, Jerry Bruckheimer and Gore Verbinski are this type of gifted combination and that we're thrilled to return to use them around the Lone Ranger, an authentic and exciting new Disney adventure." Disney also introduced that Thor 2 is going to be gone to live in November. 15, 2013 from This summer 26, 2013, and Phineas and Ferb will hit theaters on This summer 26, 2013. Related Subjects The Actor-brad Pitt The Lone Ranger

'360' starts London fest

"360"The BFI London Film Festival started its 55th edition on Wednesday evening while using European premiere of Fernando Meirelles' "360," toplining Rachel Weisz and Jude Law.Meirelles was grew to become an associate of on stage legally together with a raft of worldwide cast people including Moritz Bleibtreu and Vladimir Vdovichenkov.Scribe Peter Morgan and producers Andrew Eaton and David Linde also aided presenting the story about interconnected love and associations hooking up different figures from different urban centers around the globe.Nonetheless, fellow Brit cast people Weisz and Anthony Hopkins were particularly absent within the preem.Because the partly U.K.- funded pic has yet to nab a Brit distrib following its preem at Toronto lately, indie distrib Artificial Eye are mentioned to bond by having an offer for U.K rights.Industyites from all over the world packed into London's Odeon Leicester Square cinema for your opening evening screening, no matter the hefty construction work being completed round the Square, before departing for the trendy after-party party at London's Saatchi Gallery.This year marks the ultimate edition artistic director Sandra Hebron will stand it the helm in the fest. Former Sydney Film Festival topper Claire Stewart will need the reins after this year.Yesteryear three years has seen the fest aided having a cash injection of a single.8 million ($2.8 million) from former public sector org the U.K. Film Council (whose functions have mostly been acquired with the BFI), which year's fest hopes to become strong one, to have the ability to squeeze fest becoming an worldwide launch-pad for photos.BFI topper Amanda Nevill, however, told auds the fest's recent partnership with American Express will be a very helpful one, and implored "generous" contributor for the fest to "keep giving" to have the ability to support future models.LFF runs March. 12-27. Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com

Testimonials From Famed Artists

Testimonials From Famed Artists October 12, 2011 Photo by Getty Images Sandra Bullock "Back Stage? I am standing here now because of Back Stage!"Sandra Bullock ("The Blind Side," "The Proposal," "Crash," "Miss Congeniality")"I did theater all the way through high school, and I was doing it in summer in St. Louis when I came home from college. Finally I quit school, and I went to NY to try my luck there. I'd never been to NY. I had a friend in St. Louis, and he was kind of advising me, because he had been to NY. He said when you get to NY, you've got to buy a Back Stage, because that's where they have all the auditions. So I go to NY on a Wednesday. I open Back Stage the day I get there, and lo and behold [I got cast in a project]."Scott Bakula ("Men of a Certain Age," "Star Trek: Enterprise," "American Beauty")"When I got out of college, it was all about Back Stage. When I made my short films and plays, I cast out of Back Stage. Everyone, when they get to NY and want to be in that business, starts with Back Stage. It's all about Back Stage."Gavin O'Connor, writer-director ("Warrior," "Pride and Glory," "Tumbleweeds")"How did I get into acting? Well, I read a lot of Back Stage. Everybody got Back Stage. That's so funny. Back Stage, wow. Doesn't every unemployed actor have their Back Stage? That's the first step."Scarlett Johansson ("Iron Man 2," "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," "Match Point")"Literally, I got off the bus in a pair of character shoes and an A-line skirt and a leotard shirt, thinking, 'I want to be an actor.' Thinking, as most of us do, getting off the bus with suitcase in hand, that it's going to be a lot easier than it is and the city will just be glad I'm there as they discover me. You know in the back of your head it's not true, but you don't know how hard it's going to be, and it's hardit's really hard. You audition for everything. In fact, I probably got my first job from Back Stage magazine in NY. It was an Off-Off-Off-Broadway production, and it was a new play, and I went down there and auditioned in a cattle call, and I got the role. So that's a minor miracle."Marcia Gay Harden ("God of Carnage" on Broadway, "Mystic River," "Into the Wild")"Back Stage saved my life, basically. When I was going to give up acting completely and I was on the phone with my mother in NY City, saying, 'Couldn't you just send me a couple of hundred dollars? I'll pay you back.' I'd been sleeping on a bench in Penn Station for two weeks. I had an old copy of Back Stage, and there was this casting call in the back, and she said, 'Well, I'll give you a ticket to come home, but I'm not going to send you any money.' I said, 'Okay, well, I have this audition first,' as if I had some big audition. It was a cattle call in the back of Back Stage, and I went to it and I got my first job from that [Back Stage], and I've been working ever since. I have very romantic feelings about Back Stage because of that."Todd Field, actor ("Stranger Than Fiction," "Twister," "Eyes Wide Shut"), writer-director ("Little Children")"The first job I booked was for a UPN pilot called 'Extra Sauce.' I'd been doing a play, booked after reading Back Stage, and was fortunate enough to get a call telling me I'd been requested by someone who'd seen it. After years of waiting for the 'shot,' when it finally arrived I learned firsthand that Hollywood isn't like it is on TV. It's often long hours of waiting. But when my scene arrived, late in the taping, and the place exploded in laughter, it was everything I imagined and more. Thanks, Back Stage; you guys played a role in that."Cutter Garcia ("CSI:--------------- Miami," "Chuck," "Las Vegas," "Hannah Montana," "Monk")"Back Stage is more than just another trade publication. It is filled with up-to-date and valuable information on what is happening in the industry from week to week, especially for actors just coming into L.A. It could even lead you to where you need to be at the moment...you never know."Kim Basinger ("8 Mile," "L.A. Confidential," "Batman," "9 Weeks")"I can say that to a certain extent it's the bible and the road map for some of our best performers. If someone asks you where to get information or if someone says, 'I want to break in,' you always say, 'Well, get Back Stage.' Just for information that you need, the rules and regulations, and access to all the resources, and who's auditioning what and when and where, and what's happening. It has its hand on the pulse."Brooke Shields ("Lipstick Jungle," "Suddenly Susan," "Pretty Baby")"['Matewan'] was my first feature film, but it came in kind of an interesting way. My wife [Marianne] was also an actor. When we were living in NY, she answered a Back Stage ad for an NYU student's film, and that turned out to be Nancy Savoca. So Marianne did Nancy's half-hour junior black-and-white piece. Then she and Nancy and Rich, Nancy's husbandwe all four became real good friends from that experience. Then Nancy worked on 'Brother From Another Planet' when John [Sayles] was shooting that. And she was aware that John beforehand had lost financing. He wanted to do 'Matewan' but lost the financing, so he went on to do 'Brother From Another Planet.' So Nancy gave John my name and said, 'When the time comes for "Matewan," take a look at this guy.' So that's kind of how that came about."Chris Cooper ("The Town," "Seabiscuit," "American Beauty," "Lone Star")"I got my first acting gig through Back Stage in NY. It was a film called 'The Paper Boy.' Eric Ogden was the director. I was living in NYC the summer of my junior-going-into-senior year of high school, interning in casting offices, doing that shit, and I was getting Back Stage and looking for auditions. There was an audition for this short, so I went and auditioned and got a callback, and I was all fired up. It was my first real audition outside of, like, community theater, and I ended up getting it. I remember I was walking to work one morning and I got a phone call from the director being like, 'You wanna do this thing?' I was like, 'Ah!' I remember walking down the street with my hand in the air."Chris Evans ("Puncture," "Captain America: The First Avenger," "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," "Fantastic Four")"I am a huge fan of Back Stage, obviously. It was my bible for many years as I struggled as an actor in NY."Camryn Manheim ("Harry's Law," "Ghost Whisperer," "The Practice," "Happiness")"There was a time when [Back Stage] was a bible for me of information. I was in a couple of articles. I remember doing a play at the Lee Strasberg Institute, 'A View From the Bridge,' and they did an article about the play and I was part of it, and it was a great article. A lot of people came from it. I have very fond memories of Back Stage."Kim Cattrall ("The Ghost Writer," "Sex and the City," "Police Academy")"I've seen the magazine in countless casting offices. You always pick up Back Stage and then flip through it. I've seen it a million times. I always find it interesting, and it's my industry; it's my business. I love it."Logan Lerman ("The Three Musketeers," "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief")"My husband and I, when we first moved to NY, Back Stage is all we would look at. We would get it and, like, run to auditions. I got my first play in NY from Back Stage. It was part of the festival at Theater for the New City, and I got a role in a play called 'Bar None' that starred a woman named Avocado Tit. I'm not even kidding. So I have a long history with Back Stage."Kathryn Hahn ("Free Agents," "Our Idiot Brother," "Revolutionary Road," "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy")"I'm well aware of Back Stage. At my acting school at the Atlantic Theater Company, we have a business class, and one of the first things our teacher [told] us is to get a copy of Back Stage."Elizabeth Olsen ("Martha Marcy May Marlene," "Peace, Love & Misunderstanding")"When I first started in the business, [Back Stage] was my bible."Loretta Devine (original Broadway production of "Dreamgirls," TV: "Grey's Anatomy," "Eli Stone," "The PJs," "Boston Public")"I [read Back Stage] when I first came to NY, absolutely. I can't say that I ever got a job going to any of those auditions, but yesI used to read it, certainly."Hope Davis ("Mildred Pierce," "American Splendor," "About Schmidt," "The Daytrippers")"I certainly have stood in a lot of very long lines from ads in Back Stage. I remember one time there was this open call for a soap opera. This was 25 years ago. And I remember it was on a Saturday. They're always on a Saturday; they're never on normal working hours. And I remember coming out of the subway, and there were literally 350 girls just lined up. I'd just moved to NY and thought, 'Oh, God.' I stood in a lot of lines from Back Stage. I certainly read it every week."Catherine Dent ("Uncle Vanya" on Broadway, "The Shield," "21 Grams," "Nobody's Fool")"I was so excited to get my first commercial that I almost didn't go to the Sundance Film Festival when 'The Brothers McMullen' got in. After two years of trying, I finally got my first commercial. 'Brothers McMullen' was truly my big break. I got it out of Back Stage, and I didn't have an agent and I wasn't in SAG, and it went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and everything changed. And that film's director, Ed Burns, is definitely a champion. I've done three movies with him, and I learned so much about the way I love to work by working with him. Pete Berg, too. I love working with the same people over and over again; I feel it always allows me to do my best work. Because I know that person is behind me."Connie Britton ("Friday Night Lights," "Spin City," "The Brothers McMullen")"I think my very first job out of college was out of Back Stage. I went to an open call for 'Rent,' and I did 'Rent' in Canada, and that's what started me off: production contract, back to NY, and boom! Somebody I worked with very recently just moved to New York, and he said, 'I just want to get some insight on what I should do.' I was like, 'First thing you need to do is go and pick up Back Stage and run to some auditions and see what you can get through that.' "David St. Louis (Broadway: "Jesus Christ Superstar," "The Scarlet Pimpernel")"I certainly read [Back Stage] for jobs. Yes, I would purchase it and read it and see what was going on."Judith Ivey ("Flags of Our Fathers," Broadway: "Steaming," "Hurlyburly," "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard")"When I was dancing professionally, I found all of my jobs in Back Stage. Every Thursday, I would run down to the corner store and pick up the latest issue. It was so exciting! I would circle the upcoming auditions with a red pen, write them on my calendar, and prepare! The Radio City Rockettes, '42nd Street' in Europe, 'My One and Only' national tour, 'Tap' the movie, 'Sugar Babies' with Juliet Prowse and Mickey Rooney, 'Hello Hollywood, Hello!' with Carol Channing, and many others were some of the productions that I read about, dreamt about, and landed thanks to Back Stage!"Stephenie Lawton, dancer and dance teacher"I used to get Back Stage when I was in collegewell, I had friends who got it and would tell me about it, and my friends and I would drive up from Pittsburgh [to auditions in NY]. I auditioned for so many things then. My first job was from Back Stage."Patrick Wilson ("A Gifted Man," "Watchmen," "Little Children")"Your magazine has carried me through the hardest of times. It was all I looked at when I first moved to NY. It's like the mecca, the Torah, of actors going to NY. It has to be a part of your life. You make it so comforting for actors. I used you guys all the time for auditions and read the articles on how to be a better actor, how to be more patientthere was an article on rejection that I swear saved me. It's such a great thing; every actor all over the world knows about Back Stage. I read it for so many years and continue to look at it so fondly."Katie Finneran (Broadway: "The Iceman Cometh," "Proposals," "The Heiress," "Cabaret," "Noises Off")"I was a huge Back Stage buyer! I used to get excited every Thursday when it came out. That was the most exciting part of my life when I started acting. I would have my hard copy of my headshot, and I would buy envelopes and send it out to the addresses. I got a whole bunch of jobs from Back Stage."Guillermo Diaz ("Weeds," "Mercy," "Half Baked") Testimonials From Famed Artists October 12, 2011 Sandra Bullock PHOTO CREDIT Getty Images "Back Stage? I am standing here now because of Back Stage!"Sandra Bullock ("The Blind Side," "The Proposal," "Crash," "Miss Congeniality")"I did theater all the way through high school, and I was doing it in summer in St. Louis when I came home from college. Finally I quit school, and I went to NY to try my luck there. I'd never been to NY. I had a friend in St. Louis, and he was kind of advising me, because he had been to NY. He said when you get to NY, you've got to buy a Back Stage, because that's where they have all the auditions. So I go to NY on a Wednesday. I open Back Stage the day I get there, and lo and behold [I got cast in a project]."Scott Bakula ("Men of a Certain Age," "Star Trek: Enterprise," "American Beauty")"When I got out of college, it was all about Back Stage. When I made my short films and plays, I cast out of Back Stage. Everyone, when they get to NY and want to be in that business, starts with Back Stage. It's all about Back Stage."Gavin O'Connor, writer-director ("Warrior," "Pride and Glory," "Tumbleweeds")"How did I get into acting? Well, I read a lot of Back Stage. Everybody got Back Stage. That's so funny. Back Stage, wow. Doesn't every unemployed actor have their Back Stage? That's the first step."Scarlett Johansson ("Iron Man 2," "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," "Match Point")"Literally, I got off the bus in a pair of character shoes and an A-line skirt and a leotard shirt, thinking, 'I want to be an actor.' Thinking, as most of us do, getting off the bus with suitcase in hand, that it's going to be a lot easier than it is and the city will just be glad I'm there as they discover me. You know in the back of your head it's not true, but you don't know how hard it's going to be, and it's hardit's really hard. You audition for everything. In fact, I probably got my first job from Back Stage magazine in NY. It was an Off-Off-Off-Broadway production, and it was a new play, and I went down there and auditioned in a cattle call, and I got the role. So that's a minor miracle."Marcia Gay Harden ("God of Carnage" on Broadway, "Mystic River," "Into the Wild")"Back Stage saved my life, basically. When I was going to give up acting completely and I was on the phone with my mother in NY City, saying, 'Couldn't you just send me a couple of hundred dollars? I'll pay you back.' I'd been sleeping on a bench in Penn Station for two weeks. I had an old copy of Back Stage, and there was this casting call in the back, and she said, 'Well, I'll give you a ticket to come home, but I'm not going to send you any money.' I said, 'Okay, well, I have this audition first,' as if I had some big audition. It was a cattle call in the back of Back Stage, and I went to it and I got my first job from that [Back Stage], and I've been working ever since. I have very romantic feelings about Back Stage because of that."Todd Field, actor ("Stranger Than Fiction," "Twister," "Eyes Wide Shut"), writer-director ("Little Children")"The first job I booked was for a UPN pilot called 'Extra Sauce.' I'd been doing a play, booked after reading Back Stage, and was fortunate enough to get a call telling me I'd been requested by someone who'd seen it. After years of waiting for the 'shot,' when it finally arrived I learned firsthand that Hollywood isn't like it is on TV. It's often long hours of waiting. But when my scene arrived, late in the taping, and the place exploded in laughter, it was everything I imagined and more. Thanks, Back Stage; you guys played a role in that."Cutter Garcia ("CSI:--------------- Miami," "Chuck," "Las Vegas," "Hannah Montana," "Monk")"Back Stage is more than just another trade publication. It is filled with up-to-date and valuable information on what is happening in the industry from week to week, especially for actors just coming into L.A. It could even lead you to where you need to be at the moment...you never know."Kim Basinger ("8 Mile," "L.A. Confidential," "Batman," "9 Weeks")"I can say that to a certain extent it's the bible and the road map for some of our best performers. If someone asks you where to get information or if someone says, 'I want to break in,' you always say, 'Well, get Back Stage.' Just for information that you need, the rules and regulations, and access to all the resources, and who's auditioning what and when and where, and what's happening. It has its hand on the pulse."Brooke Shields ("Lipstick Jungle," "Suddenly Susan," "Pretty Baby")"['Matewan'] was my first feature film, but it came in kind of an interesting way. My wife [Marianne] was also an actor. When we were living in NY, she answered a Back Stage ad for an NYU student's film, and that turned out to be Nancy Savoca. So Marianne did Nancy's half-hour junior black-and-white piece. Then she and Nancy and Rich, Nancy's husbandwe all four became real good friends from that experience. Then Nancy worked on 'Brother From Another Planet' when John [Sayles] was shooting that. And she was aware that John beforehand had lost financing. He wanted to do 'Matewan' but lost the financing, so he went on to do 'Brother From Another Planet.' So Nancy gave John my name and said, 'When the time comes for "Matewan," take a look at this guy.' So that's kind of how that came about."Chris Cooper ("The Town," "Seabiscuit," "American Beauty," "Lone Star")"I got my first acting gig through Back Stage in NY. It was a film called 'The Paper Boy.' Eric Ogden was the director. I was living in NYC the summer of my junior-going-into-senior year of high school, interning in casting offices, doing that shit, and I was getting Back Stage and looking for auditions. There was an audition for this short, so I went and auditioned and got a callback, and I was all fired up. It was my first real audition outside of, like, community theater, and I ended up getting it. I remember I was walking to work one morning and I got a phone call from the director being like, 'You wanna do this thing?' I was like, 'Ah!' I remember walking down the street with my hand in the air."Chris Evans ("Puncture," "Captain America: The First Avenger," "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," "Fantastic Four")"I am a huge fan of Back Stage, obviously. It was my bible for many years as I struggled as an actor in NY."Camryn Manheim ("Harry's Law," "Ghost Whisperer," "The Practice," "Happiness")"There was a time when [Back Stage] was a bible for me of information. I was in a couple of articles. I remember doing a play at the Lee Strasberg Institute, 'A View From the Bridge,' and they did an article about the play and I was part of it, and it was a great article. A lot of people came from it. I have very fond memories of Back Stage."Kim Cattrall ("The Ghost Writer," "Sex and the City," "Police Academy")"I've seen the magazine in countless casting offices. You always pick up Back Stage and then flip through it. I've seen it a million times. I always find it interesting, and it's my industry; it's my business. I love it."Logan Lerman ("The Three Musketeers," "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief")"My husband and I, when we first moved to NY, Back Stage is all we would look at. We would get it and, like, run to auditions. I got my first play in NY from Back Stage. It was part of the festival at Theater for the New City, and I got a role in a play called 'Bar None' that starred a woman named Avocado Tit. I'm not even kidding. So I have a long history with Back Stage."Kathryn Hahn ("Free Agents," "Our Idiot Brother," "Revolutionary Road," "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy")"I'm well aware of Back Stage. At my acting school at the Atlantic Theater Company, we have a business class, and one of the first things our teacher [told] us is to get a copy of Back Stage."Elizabeth Olsen ("Martha Marcy May Marlene," "Peace, Love & Misunderstanding")"When I first started in the business, [Back Stage] was my bible."Loretta Devine (original Broadway production of "Dreamgirls," TV: "Grey's Anatomy," "Eli Stone," "The PJs," "Boston Public")"I [read Back Stage] when I first came to NY, absolutely. I can't say that I ever got a job going to any of those auditions, but yesI used to read it, certainly."Hope Davis ("Mildred Pierce," "American Splendor," "About Schmidt," "The Daytrippers")"I certainly have stood in a lot of very long lines from ads in Back Stage. I remember one time there was this open call for a soap opera. This was 25 years ago. And I remember it was on a Saturday. They're always on a Saturday; they're never on normal working hours. And I remember coming out of the subway, and there were literally 350 girls just lined up. I'd just moved to NY and thought, 'Oh, God.' I stood in a lot of lines from Back Stage. I certainly read it every week."Catherine Dent ("Uncle Vanya" on Broadway, "The Shield," "21 Grams," "Nobody's Fool")"I was so excited to get my first commercial that I almost didn't go to the Sundance Film Festival when 'The Brothers McMullen' got in. After two years of trying, I finally got my first commercial. 'Brothers McMullen' was truly my big break. I got it out of Back Stage, and I didn't have an agent and I wasn't in SAG, and it went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and everything changed. And that film's director, Ed Burns, is definitely a champion. I've done three movies with him, and I learned so much about the way I love to work by working with him. Pete Berg, too. I love working with the same people over and over again; I feel it always allows me to do my best work. Because I know that person is behind me."Connie Britton ("Friday Night Lights," "Spin City," "The Brothers McMullen")"I think my very first job out of college was out of Back Stage. I went to an open call for 'Rent,' and I did 'Rent' in Canada, and that's what started me off: production contract, back to NY, and boom! Somebody I worked with very recently just moved to NY, and he said, 'I just want to get some insight on what I should do.' I was like, 'First thing you need to do is go and pick up Back Stage and run to some auditions and see what you can get through that.' "David St. Louis (Broadway: "Jesus Christ Superstar," "The Scarlet Pimpernel")"I certainly read [Back Stage] for jobs. Yes, I would purchase it and read it and see what was going on."Judith Ivey ("Flags of Our Fathers," Broadway: "Steaming," "Hurlyburly," "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard")"When I was dancing professionally, I found all of my jobs in Back Stage. Every Thursday, I would run down to the corner store and pick up the latest issue. It was so exciting! I would circle the upcoming auditions with a red pen, write them on my calendar, and prepare! The Radio City Rockettes, '42nd Street' in Europe, 'My One and Only' national tour, 'Tap' the movie, 'Sugar Babies' with Juliet Prowse and Mickey Rooney, 'Hello Hollywood, Hello!' with Carol Channing, and many others were some of the productions that I read about, dreamt about, and landed thanks to Back Stage!"Stephenie Lawton, dancer and dance teacher"I used to get Back Stage when I was in collegewell, I had friends who got it and would tell me about it, and my friends and I would drive up from Pittsburgh [to auditions in NY]. I auditioned for so many things then. My first job was from Back Stage."Patrick Wilson ("A Gifted Man," "Watchmen," "Little Children")"Your magazine has carried me through the hardest of times. It was all I looked at when I first moved to NY. It's like the mecca, the Torah, of actors going to NY. It has to be a part of your life. You make it so comforting for actors. I used you guys all the time for auditions and read the articles on how to be a better actor, how to be more patientthere was an article on rejection that I swear saved me. It's such a great thing; every actor all over the world knows about Back Stage. I read it for so many years and continue to look at it so fondly."Katie Finneran (Broadway: "The Iceman Cometh," "Proposals," "The Heiress," "Cabaret," "Noises Off")"I was a huge Back Stage buyer! I used to get excited every Thursday when it came out. That was the most exciting part of my life when I started acting. I would have my hard copy of my headshot, and I would buy envelopes and send it out to the addresses. I got a whole bunch of jobs from Back Stage."Guillermo Diaz ("Weeds," "Mercy," "Half Baked")

BREAKING: Tonights NYFF Mystery Film Is Martin Scorseses Hugo

VIDEO: Martin Scorsese Introduces Hugo’ HAMMOND: NY Film Festival Mystery Movie BREAKING: I am in a position to make certain tonight’s NY Film Festival mystery film is Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, the John Logan-scripted adaptation in the John Selznick novel Hugo Cabret. The festival revealed late the other day it might possess a film having a master filmmaker, and speculation covered from Clint Eastwood’s J Edgar to Stephen Daldry’s Very Noisy and very Close. I’m told that Richard Pena will introduce the look at Avery Fisher Hall, however’m unsure if Scorsese come in your home. The film isn’t quite finished, but it'll be proven in 3d, though there might be some eco-friendly screen moments. Vital releases Hugo on November 23. Scorsese hasn’t proven an incomplete film similar to this before (though he did once tell me the final Temptation Of Christ qualified as that whenever Universal rushed it into release because protesters were dragging crosses as you're watching houses of studio greater-ups like Sid Sheinberg), as well as the NYFF hasn’t proven an incomplete print similar to this since Disney’s Beauty As Well As The Animal in 1991. Nevertheless it’s a good chance to create buzz round the movie, Scorsese’s first family and 3d film. The cast includes Chloe Sophistication Moretz, Michael Pitt, Jude Law, Congressman Congressman Christopher Lee, Emily Mortimer, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley, Ray Winstone, Michael Stuhlbarg and Asa Butterfield inside the title role. Scorsese and also the Actor-kaira Pitt produced it with Graham King. Here’s the film’s trailer:

Sundance will get in 'Position'

'First Position'Sundance Chooses has snagged United States privileges to "First Position," the ballet doc that preemed in the Toronto Intl. Film Festival the 2009 fall. Written, directed and created by Bess Kargman, "Position" focuses on six youthful ballroom dancers from around the world competing for scholarship grants and jobs within the Youth America Grand Prix, a exclusive bunhead competish. Film will keep the models around the festival circuit this fall, including tests at Vancouver, the Hamptons and DOC New york city. United States distribution pact for "First Position" was discussed by Arianna Bocco and Betsy Rodgers of Sundance Chooses with Submarine's Josh Braun and attorney Marc H. Simon. Movie also was acquired by Hopscoth for New zealand and australia. Sundance Chooses is really a sister division of IFC Films and it is genre banner IFC Night time, the 3 which release films on multiple platforms including VOD and theatrical. "First Position" joins a Sundance Chooses slate which includes "Pina," "Weekend" and "The Little One using the Bike." Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

Darth Vader's 'Star Wars' Thought: Recalling 'Empire's' Finest Shock

Cinema, similar to the real life, is stuffed with estranged families that eventually get together. Sometimes the family reunions are pleased ones. Sometimes, less. Within the situation of "The Wild Bunch,Inch the thought that Luke Skywalker's true father (uh, spoiler alert?) is really his enemy, the Sith the almighty Darth Vader, lands within the latter category by having an unequivocal "nooooooo!" Matched up only by his personal infamous "noooo," Vader's confession -- "I'm your father" -- remains probably the most profound and memorable sentences ever uttered in movie history... and also the sting continues to be felt a lot more than 3 decades later. A four-year-old boy's a reaction to Vader's thought for the first time continues to be using the Internet by storm now, and also the reason is not surprising: for decades of nerds, youthful and old, the Dark Lord's about-face remains probably the most chilling and unsettling moments in our childhood... presuming you missed over that other "The Exorcist" trilogy for that classic one, obviously. Following the jump, people from the MTV News team recall their reminiscences of seeing the legendary scene for the first time. Josh Horowitz: "I am less than of sufficient age to consider my reaction initially when i first saw the legendary 'Empire' moment, however i certainly recall the three (?) years we anxiously waited before 'Jedi' arrived on the scene and also the endless debates with my your government about whether Darth was laying and, more to the point, who the hell the 'other' was?!? Any tension between us was just amplified after i browse the 'Jedi' comic before it arrived on the scene and screamed to my buddy 'Darth Vader turns good!' Confident this is when things got physical between us. Not again, I did not ruin it for you personally, did I?" Kevin Sullivan: "I noticeably remember being confused by Luke's a reaction to the thought. 'What? I figured he already understood.' The inaccurate quote, 'Luke, I'm your father,' was this type of common saying when I saw the film which i understood it before I really saw 'Empire Strikes Back.'" Laurel Forest: "I had been eleven after i saw 'The Empire Strikes Back.' I anxiously waited in line in the nearby mall for nearly 13 hrs, hearing the 'Star Wars' soundtrack on my small personal stereo. The Air conditioner within the theater was damaged and couldnt be switched off. I viewed 'ESB' with my father, freezing, looking at the advantage of my chair the entire time. When Vader told Luke he was his father, I switched to my father and requested 'How can Vader possess a human boy if hes a piece of equipment? I dont have it.A My father just shook his mind and chuckled." John Phares: "For me personally, as soon as was totally destroyed because I, being the stupid seven years old kid I had been fishing through my parents VHS collection, viewed 'Return from the Jedi' first. Mainly since it had the best title, also because I had been home alone coupled with nobody to scold me, and finally because I didnt realize in those days that always the very first movie inside a franchise sports the title of stated franchise. Whoops!" Tami Katzoff: "'The Empire Strikes Back' was really the initial 'Star Wars' movie which i ever saw. I vaguely remember visiting the cinema with my parents (I had been very, very youthful). And That I remember Vaders thought. But what struck me most about this pivotal scene was - which were most likely the precise ideas running through my mind at that time - 'Lukes hands got stop! By his fathers lightsaber! Cooool!!'" Inform us that which you remember from the classic "The Exorcist" moment within the comments section as well as on Twitter!

Leonard Nimoy Retires from Star Trek Conventions

After decades on the circuit, retiring sci-fi icon Leonard Nimoy put in his last Star Trek convention appearance, waved his last Vulcan finger sign, and uttered the line “Live long and prosper” to a con crowd for the final time last weekend in Rosemont, Illinois. If you’ve been to Comic-Con or any of Creation Entertainment’s Trek-specific gatherings, you know how much the erstwhile Spock will be missed; if not, here’s a scene from an incisive documentary about the scene that pretty much sums it up. Kidding! It’s the opening of Galaxy Quest, which nevertheless seemed to approximate the real life experience of working a convention as a former member of a beloved genre series. In contrast, the 80-year-old Nimoy always seemed more into and enriched by the fan interaction experience than Alan Rickman’s Alexander Dane. By Grabthar’s Hammer, Nimoy shall be missed, but kudos to a well-earned retirement. (He has been, and always shall be, our Spock.) Spock attends his last ‘Star Trek’ convention [AP]