Dancing Using the Stars' Mark Ballas Defends Chaz Bono

Mark Ballas, Chaz Bono Because the year of Dwts will get going ahead, professional Mark Ballas states he's watching the ft of partner Kristin Cavallari - and watching the rear of contestant Chaz Bono."I have found a few of the rough spots and I am removing them out at this time,Inch Ballas told TV Guide Magazine in the September 10 Creative Arts Emmys from the potential he sees in Cavallari. "But she's good. I just tell her a few occasions before she begins getting used to it."Ballas stated he clicked on using the infamously pot-stirring The Hillsides star immediately. "We obtain along, you will find there's lot in keeping, we now have similar personas, we discover exactly the same stuff funny, and i believe it will likely be excellent. We create a good team," he stated. "She does not say 'I'm tired.' She just keeps going and that is the thing you need like a choreographer, someone who's willing and merely up for this. She's up for this."Ballas added that together with turning Cavallari right into a full-fledged dancer, he hopes the show will disclose a brand new side of Chaz Bono - the transgender offspring of pop icon Cher and dance partner of Lacey Schwimmer - and defuse the negative backlash the activist has brought from some quarters."The one thing concerning the show is the fact that we take people on journeys. He's a great person," stated Ballas. "It is so wrong of individuals to accuse and also to poke fun after which to become rude someone complain about that they have never met, that they do not know. I have met Chaz. I have spent hrs with Chaz, and that he is really a lovely guy. If only him the very best of luck - and great for him, escaping . there and merely doing the work. Place it towards the guy, my buddy. It's all regulated good."Ballas described that after debate arises on DWTS, the cast's first instinct should be to rally round the star at the middle of the flack. "We'll defend our very own towards the dying," stated Ballas. "It had been exactly the same factor after i was with Bristol Palin: I would have was before a bus for your girl. I am the main one within the studio together with her for 12 hrs. I am the one that knows what she's enjoy and she's an excellent person. And Chaz is an excellent person. I am really rooting for him!"

Rodar sets flamenco tale 'Amaya'

Barcelona-based Rodar y Rodar, producer of "The Orphanage" and "Julia's Eyes," is preparing romantic drama "Carmen Amaya," to become directed by Rodar producer and partner Marly Targarona.Sara Baras, now Spain's foremost femme flamenco dancer, will have Amaya.A departure for Rodar -- in subject a lot more than expected financing structure -- "Amaya" is really a imaginary portrait of Carmen Amaya, who totally changed flamenco having a ferocious dancing style, required flamenco to the world stage within the 20's, made an appearance in 1945's Univesal production "See My Lawyer" and carried out in the Whitened House.Script, by Juan Carlos Sanchez and Enric Ros, is going to be completed this month. Set between The country, Paris, London and La, and focusing on a grownup audience, "Amaya" concentrates on Amaya's across-the-tracks marriage at age 40: While Amaya was illiterate, her husband was a maximum-class intellectual, fifteen years her junior."Carmen Amaya were built with a happy existence and a trio of loves: Her husband, her art and her large family which she supported and required wherever she went," Targarona stated, who referred to "Amaya" like a "love story with a few spectacular flamenco amounts."Rodar aims to structure "Amaya" being an worldwide co-production between The country, France and Japan, where flamenco includes a substantial group of followers, stated Joaquin Padro, who partners Targarona at Rodar y Rodar."Amaya" is scheduled to start shooting in 2012. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

NBCUniversal Picks Allan Cohen To Be Controller

Stuart Epstein, named CFO on Wednesday, sure is moving fast to put his team together. NEW YORK September 09, 2011 Allan Cohen has been named Senior Vice President and Controller, NBCUniversal. He reports to Stuart J. Epstein, Chief Financial Officer, NBCUniversal. Cohen will be responsible for the accounting and financial reporting for NBCUniversal and the businesses in the companys four major financial segments of Broadcast Television, Cable Networks, Filmed Entertainment, and Theme Parks. He joins NBCUniversal from Time Warner Inc., where he had recently served as Vice President and Assistant Controller. At Time Warner, Cohen was responsible for accounting and reporting matters for all business segments. Cohens professional experience includes nearly a decade as an accountant at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, where he specialized in the media industry. He also served for two years as a Securities and Exchange Commission Professional Accounting Fellow for the Division of Corporate Finance. A recognized leader on financial aspects of the Media and Entertainment industry, Cohen has been a keynote speaker at various accounting conferences.

Toronto: Anchor Bay Acquires Thriller Remake 13

EXCLUSIVE: Anchor Bay Films just acquired U.S. distribution rights to 13, Gela Babluanis remake of his 2005 thriller 13 Tzameti. The film isn’t playing here at Toronto, but it will be one of a flurry of titles being shopped during the festival, something that proved very effective in Cannes, where some of the biggest acquisition deals were made on the basis of sellers showing promo reels to hungry distributors. The remake stars Sam Riley, Curtis 50 Cent Jackson, Ray Winstone, Alexander Skarsgrd, Michael Shannon, Ben Gazzara, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Mickey Rourke and Jason Statham. Anchor Bay president Bill Clark and Worldwide Acquisitions and Co-Productions Kevin Kasha made the deal. 13 was a great pick-up for Anchor Bay Films, Kasha, said. The film has an amazing cast and it truly keeps you guessing. Were excited to be working with Babluani in releasing it. The original won the 2006 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Babluani won best director at the Venice Film Festival later that year. A desperate man steals an envelope promising a mysterious job that can make him a fortune. Assuming a false identity, he discovers hes enlisted to be a numbered participant in an underworld Russian roulette competition where gamblers place bets on the contestants. The potential payoff is so high he goes through with it despite the long odds of survival.

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Erectile dysfunction Helms On For Le Mac

He'll star within the French comedy remakeWhen he isn't busy engaging in trouble on stag outings within the Hangover films, Erectile dysfunction Helms usually can be located as Andy Bernard about the American version from the Office. But he's just acquired another film role, saying yes to star within the remake of 2010 French comedy Le Mac. Pascal Bourdiaux's film saw José Garcia like a mild-mannered banker who's instructed to impersonate a well known gangster and pimp. It may sound such as the kind of seafood-out-of-water role Helms can accomplish effortlessly. The script has been compiled by Johnny Rosenthal, one of many authors who've pitched 1 of 2 competing assumes Bad Santa 2 to Dimension Films and Miramax. He raised the thought of remaking Le Mac to film backers Media Privileges Capital, that has struck up a partnership with Ben Stiller's Red-colored Hour Films to thrust the concept into development. Helms has lately popped up just like Cedar plank Rapids, Semi Professional and Meet Dork. He'll next be observed in the Duplass brothers' new comedy Shaun Who Lives both at home and heard within the animated undertake Dr Seuss' The Lorax. And that he also offers several movies hiding within the clouded waters of development, including an untitled film that finds Civil War re-enactors being moved to the actual factor and True North, in regards to a talk show host who energizes from the coma with a brand new, user friendly personality. We'll need to wait and find out whether Le Mac joins individuals movies in limbo...

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Kanye West Closes First Call Of Duty Convention

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Kanye West closed down the inaugural Call of Duty XP convention, a two-day event celebrating the popular Activision Blizzard Inc. shoot-em-up video game franchise, with an explosive concert inside a hangar on the old airfield where Howard Hughes built the Spruce Goose. Wests performance included such hits as Gold Digger and Love Lock Down. West, who was joined several times throughout the show by 20 scantily clad female dancers, kicked off the Saturday spectacle by ascending more than five stories above the crowd on a platform inside the cavernous space. Earlier, the hangar stage served as the final battleground for a Call of Duty tournament that awarded $1 million in prize money. The four-man group Optic Gaming from the United States toppled 31 other teams from across the globe to win the events single-elimination Modern Warfare 3 tournament. William BigTymer Johnson, Blake Vengeance2T Campbell, Joseph Merc SD DeLuca and Matthew NaDeSHoT Haag bested the United Kingdom team Til Infinity to take home the $400,000 grand prize. This is definitely the most that weve ever won, said Johnson, 20, of Marked Tree, Ark. Call of Duty devotees lined up at the extravaganza for a chance to play the multiplayer mode of Modern Warfare 3, spar on paintball fields modeled after Modern Warfare 2 levels, glide over the event on a zipline, zoom around an obstacle course in a Jeep and grab grub from an eatery resembling the games fictitious Burger Town fast food chain. Copyright 2011 by Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Tucker and Dale are gearing up to fight evil, but thankfully they've got some help from comic book artist Tony Moore. The "Walking Dead" co-creator supplied this fantastic poster for "Tucker and Dale vs. Evil," which debuted exclusively over at our brother blog Splash Page earlier today. Click the teaser below to see the full poster: Sink your teeth into the rest of this week's horror news after the jump! Universal's Halloween Gets Horrifying Lady Luck has seen better days in a new promo for Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights. The director for the haunted house, scarezone, and live show extravaganza delivers a message about the new attractions for this year's event. Halloween experts have crafted scenes from the works of Edgar Allan Poe, "The Thing", and more. Your luck begins to run out on September 23, but you have until October 31 to pay your debt. Dig into the teaser trailer for more haunted shenanigans. Real-Life 'Amityville Horror' Events Investigated in New Documentary Ronald DeFeo, Jr. killed his entire family in 1974. The brutal murder was the inspiration behind the novel and film versions of "The Amityville Horror". Many filmmakers have tried to cash in on the bloody story which is ripe with controversy about accomplices, hoaxes, and more but most of the movie sequels have been absolutely terrible. Ryan Katzenbach is hoping to change that with "Shattered Hopes - The True Story of the Amityville Murders", which documents the real-life tragedy of the DeFeo family. Ed Asner narrates, while Jon Huybrecht, Jon Southwell, Susannah Hart Jones, "and a host of real life medical examiners and investigators" star to recreate what happened on November 13, 1974 when DeFeo shot his parents and siblings while they slept. Dread Central has the trailer. 'Fright Night' Writer Will Tackle 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' Seth Grahame-Smith's novel "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" has had its share of setbacks. The walking dead opus based on Jane Austen's 1813 story has struggled to become a screen adaptation, but after losing its star and going through three directors some good news has finally arrived. "Buffy" writer Marti Noxon is ready to roll with the undead script, which will reunite her with "Fright Night" director Craig Gillespie. "The script needed some work. He [Gillespie] pitched me to Lionsgate and I did a rewrite, and now they are casting it. I would do any project with Craig," Noxon recently told FEARnet. Check out the full interview over here. 'The House of the Devil' Invites a Werewolf to Come Inside A throwback to the Satanic panic period of the '70s and '80s, "The House of the Devil" is more than just a nostalgic re-creation, it's also a damn good movie. Director Ti West who most recently completed "The Innkeepers", which just had its UK premiere spoke about his upcoming projects at London's FrightFest. West is contributing to the anthology, "The ABCs of Death", and there's also a sci-fi project ("The Side Effects" takes place in space and is about pharmaceutical testing) and a werewolf movie with a completed script waiting in the wings. Whatever it is, we want it and can't wait to hear more. [Hey U Guys] 'Nurse 3D' Cast Takes Shape There was a rumor this week that burlesque superstar Dita Von Teese would be starring in the upcoming "Nurse 3D", but sadly the story wasn't true. Boris Kodjoe ("Resident Evil: Afterlife") and Adam Herschman ("Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay") will be joining the cast, however, along with Neal McDonough ("Captain America"), Niecy Nash ("Reno 911") and Nick Turturro ("Hellraiser: Inferno"). The previously announced Paz De La Huerta, Katrina Bowden, and Corbin Bleu also star. Abby Russell is a trusted and hard-working nurse by day, but by night she lures men to their death in a twisted revenge scheme. A fellow nurse uncovers Abby's psychosexual exploits, but the lunatic seductress isn't ready to stop the slaughter until one last victim gets his just desserts. [Bloody-Disgusting] 'Piranha 3DD' Trailer Debuts in Space This Weekend If you want to catch a peek at the sure to be ridiculous and smutty "Piranha 3DD" trailer, watch "Apollo 18" this weekend. The "Piranha 3DD" Facebook page alerted fans to check the space film out in order to catch a glimpse of John Gulager's new movie. The cast is like a running joke and includes everyone from Danielle Panabaker and Katrina Bowden, to Christopher Lloyd, Ving Rhames, and David Hasselhoff. On November 23 the blood-thirsty piranha take over a water park. [Facebook] Tell us what you think of this week's Horror Bites in the comments and on Twitter!