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‘Veronica Mars’ New Video: “Love Triangle”

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This just-released video from the Veronica Mars movie asks fans to choose sides: are you Team Piz or Team Logan? Both have their pros and cons, but who does Veronica really, truly belong with?

The new footage finds the cast debating the issue and shows off new scenes from the much-anticipated Kickstarter-backed film adaptation of the cult favorite TV series.

Creator Rob Thomas says they’ve already had test screenings which have gone really well, and he wanted to share some footage with Veronica Mars fans and Kickstarter backers. Here’s what Thomas had to say in his message to Kickstarter supporters:

“We’ve edited the new footage together into a short featurette suitable for sharing with friends, loved ones, or enemies who happen to share your taste in pop culture, and included enough context that it’ll make sense even if your friends never saw the show.

And while we were careful to avoid significant spoilers, this footage does reveal a few new details about what to expect in the film… and gives our cast a chance to weigh on the eternal Logan vs. Piz debate. Take a look.”

‘Drop Dead Diva’ Lives At Least Through Season Six

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Drop Dead Diva Renewed for Season 5
Margaret Cho and Brooke Elliott star in season 5 of 'Drop Dead Diva' (Photo by Annette Brown/Copyright 2013)

Diva fans and wannabe Divas will have another season of Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva to check out as the network’s renewed the show for a sixth season.

Lifetime will air the 13-episode season six next year.

Drop Dead Diva will finish up season five on Sunday, November 3, 2013 at 9pm with “a surprise visitor” from Jane’s past. The series stars Brooke Elliott, Margaret Cho, Jackson Hurst, April Bowlby, Justin Deeley, Lex Medlin, and Kate Levering and was created and executive produced by Josh Berman. Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, and Robert J. Wilson also executive produce.

The Plot: In Drop Dead Diva, beautiful-but-vapid model wannabe Deb suddenly finds herself in front of Heaven’s gatekeeper, Fred, following a fatal car crash. Outraged by her sudden demise, she attempts to persuade Fred to return her to her shallow existence but is accidentally relegated to the body of the recently deceased Jane Bingum. An intelligent, thoughtful and plus-size attorney with a loyal assistant, Teri, Jane has always lived in the shadow of her colleagues whereas Deb has always relied on her external beauty.

By a twist of fate and a bolt of divine intervention, Deb must come to terms with inhabiting Jane’s curvier frame and learn to reconcile her beauty queen ways with her brilliant, new mind.




Kenny Rogers Set for Lifetime Achievement Award

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Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers (Photo Credit: Jay Fletcher)
Kenny Rogers will receive The Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award at the 47th Annual CMA Awards to be held on November 6, 2013. Rogers, a Country Music Hall of Fame member, will be honored with a tribute by Jennifer Nettles, Rascal Flatts, and Darius Rucker.
 
“Kenny Rogers is a living legend and Country Music trailblazer,” stated Ed Hardy, President of the CMA Board of Directors. “He is more than deserving of this honor and what is sure to be a stellar tribute. He represents everything that this Award was intended to recognize when we initiated it last year with Willie.”
 
Last year marked the first time the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award was given out, with the first winner being Willie Nelson. The award honors “an iconic artist who has attained the highest degree of recognition in Country Music. The Award recognizes an artist who has achieved both national and international prominence and stature through concert performances, humanitarian efforts, philanthropy, record sales, and public representation at the highest level.”
 
Rogers has sold more than 120 million records over his 50 year career and has earned five CMA Awards (with 23 nominations).
 
In addition to announcing Rogers’ tribute, CMA also announced that Lady Antebellum and The Band Perry have been added to the list of performers and that Miranda Lambert and Keith Urban will team up to perform together. Previously announced performers include Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Florida Georgia Line, Hunter Hayes with Jason Mraz, Little Big Town, Tim McGraw, Kacey Musgraves, Paisley, Blake Shelton, Taylor Swift with Vince Gill & Alison Krauss, Carrie Underwood, and Zac Brown Band with Dave Grohl. Underwood and Brad Paisley will once again be handling the hosting duties (their sixth time as a hosting team).
 
Source: CMA
 
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Jonathan Demme Presents ‘Horses of God’

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Jonathan Demme Supports Horses of GodOscar winner Jonathan Demme is such a big supporter of Morocco’s entry in the 2014 Academy Awards Best Foreign Film field that he’s presenting Horses of God for US distribution. Director Nabil Ayouch’s film has had a successful film festival run, winning the Golden Spike in Spain, Best Director in Seattle, and the Francois Chalais Prize at Cannes.

“Horses of God is simply one of the very most powerful pictures that I have ever seen. Extraordinarily gripping and moving, the cinematic style is really breathtaking. I can’t remember being so blown away by the marriage of visuals and story-telling since the first time I saw Marty Scorsese’s Mean Streets and Bertolucci’s The Conformist way back then. Along with the Jacob Burns Film Center, I am tremendously proud to be a part of bringing this vitally important film to America, beginning with its special screening at the Austin Film Festival this month. It came as no surprise to me when Morocco selected Horses of God as its entry for the Oscars last month, it is such an amazing movie,” said Demme.

Ayouch said, “Jonathan Demme is one of the masters of contemporary American cinema, and The Silence of the Lambs remains for me an inexhaustible source of inspiration. I am proud that Jonathan decided to present Horses of God in the United States. Today more than ever, the American audience needs to listen to another voice on a phenomenon as sensitive as terrorism. Violence has a source, and these children of the shanty towns of Casablanca are there to remind us of it.”

Details on Horses of God [Courtesy of the Seattle Film Festival]:

In Horses of God, Nabil Ayouch tells the story of two young soccer-loving friends, Yachine and Nabil, growing up under the fierce protection of Yachine’s older brother, Hamid. But in the sprawling slums of Sidi Moumen, not even Hamid can defend them against the harshness and injustice of the life that surrounds them. Fed up with that life, Hamid throws a rock at a police car and earns himself two years in prison.

When he returns, an eerie calm masks his newfound zealotry, and his fundamentalist friends seem to exercise a powerful influence. Inspired by the real-life 2003 terrorist attacks in Casablanca, Ayouch’s film is a thoughtful and affecting inquiry into how ordinary people come to do desperate, unfathomable things.




Jonas Brothers Say They’re Done as a Band

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Rebecca Murray
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Joe, Nick and Kevin Jonas
Joe, Nick and Kevin Jonas - Photo © Richard Chavez

The Jonas Brothers recently canceled their tour and now the rift that forced the abandonment of their planned concert dates has led to the band breaking up. The brothers Jonas talked to People about their decision to go their own ways – at least for now – and confirmed that they need some time apart to focus on their own projects.

Kevin Jonas told People it’s over for now and brother Nick was quoted as saying, “It’s really hard to say ‘forever.’ We’re closing a chapter, for sure.” Nick was actually the brother who initially expressed his dissatisfaction with the future of the band. In an interview with People, Nick said he was feeling trapped and “needed to share my heart with my brothers.”

Meanwhile, Joe wanted everyone to know that the decision was unanimous.

Here’s the group in happier times:

Wolf of Wall Street Has a New Trailer and Confirmed Release Date

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Rebecca Murray
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The Wolf of Wall Street Trailer
Leonardo DiCaprio stars in 'The Wolf of Wall Street' (Photo © Paramount Pictures)
For a while it appeared moviegoers would have to wait until 2014 to see Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, however Scorsese and Paramount have now settled on a December 25, 2013 theatrical release. The new release date is being celebrated – or maybe the timing is just coincidental – with a new trailer.
 
Directed by Scorsese and adapted from Jordan Belfort’s book by Terence Winter, The Wolf of Wall Street stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Jon Favreau, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner and Jean Dujardin.
 
Watch the trailer:
 

 
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‘Private Lives of Nashville Wives’ Cast Details Revealed

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Private Lives of Nashville Wives Cast
Erika, Sarah, Ana, Cassie, Betty and Jenny of 'Private Lives of Nashville Wives' (Photo Courtesy of TNT)

TNT’s new unscripted series Private Lives of Nashville Wives will premiere on February 24, 2014 at 10pm ET/PT but the network isn’t waiting until next year to release the list of women who will be taking on lead roles in the show. The new show will be set in the world of Country music and feature “a group of accomplished, opinionated, and driven women as they deal with professional challenges, family issues, and social relationships.”

Here’s the list of women set to star in Private Lives of Nashville Wives:

Jenny Terrell (@Jenny_Terrell) is an independent-minded woman and Vice President at a leading Internet company. She is married to JT Terrell (@JTTerrell1), one of Nashville’s top event and party producers. Jenny seems to have it all, including a family and a highly lucrative career. But with her tough-as-nails, straight-shooting, liberal personality, and beliefs, this Midwest girl from Pickerington, Ohio, is establishing herself as a force to be reckoned with in Nashville society.

Erika Page White (@ErikaPageWhite) is a former soap opera star looking to make a comeback after a nine-year hiatus. Married to platinum country music recording artist Bryan White (@bryan_white), Erika thinks it’s time to focus on her own career again, but only time and effort will tell whether a comeback is really in the cards.

Sarah Davidson (@SoSarahDavidson) is married to BMI Award-winning songwriter Dallas Davidson (@DavidsonDallas), who has 16 number one hits. Others would be content to be a stay-at-home wife living the good life, but Sarah wants more than anything to establish her own career. She is striving to reach a level of success that equals her passion.

Cassie Chapman (@CassieChapman) is married to five-time Grammy-nominated and seven-time Dove Award-winning Christian music artist Gary Chapman (@GChappy), and together the couple is exploring starting their own family. Cassie’s sweetness masks a toughness that comes out when others question their 23-year age difference. The Chapmans are attempting to prove that for all of the town’s songs of heartbreak and woe, their love is enduring.

Ana Fernandez (@TheAnaFernandez) and Betty Malo (@BettyMalo) are identical twin sisters. Ana, a single mother of two, would love to find her perfect man, but her highly extroverted personality sometimes works against her. Betty, who is married to Mavericks lead singer and songwriter Raul Malo (@RaulMalo01), hopes to be a calming influence on Ana, with whom she has a sometimes explosive yet loving relationship.

New Artist Spotlight: Cassadee Pope

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Cassadee Pope Profile
Cassadee Pope (Photo Credit: Andrew McPherson)

You’ve got to hand it to Blake Shelton: He knows how to pick winners. When he recruited Cassadee Pope for Team Blake on 2012’s The Voice, he found an artist with that rarest of assets: outstanding chops tempered by interpretive sensitivity.

On her debut album for Republic Nashville, Frame By Frame, produced by Dann Huff and, on selected tracks, Nathan Chapman, Max Martin and Shellback, Pope does hit the occasional spectacular high note, but these only emphasize rather than obscure the essence of the song. The final, skyrocketing note on “You Hear A Song” (Nathan Chapman and Pope) is even lowered in the mix, so that we hear it not as fireworks but as a continuation of the song’s complex message.

Her real strength shows in more subdued moments, as she gets inside of a lyric. On her first single, “Wasting All These Tears” (written by Caitlyn Smith and Rollie Gaalswyk), she takes us immediately into the heart of this forlorn story. We find the protagonist collapsed on her bathroom floor, desperate and despairing. Pope taps into her inner darkness on the verses; more impressively, as the melody climbs on the chorus, she uses the crescendos to make these shadows even more tangible.

From her first voice lessons at age 4 to her triumph on national television, Pope’s ascension has been steady and strong — and it’s just beginning.

IN HER OWN WORDS

SONG YOU’D LOVE TO COVER

“I’ve always wanted to cover ‘Best of You’ by Foo Fighters. It’s so powerful and I could really have fun with it at a live show.”

DREAM DUET PARTNER

“I’d be absolutely honored to do a duet with Shania Twain. I grew up idolizing her and became the independent woman I am today because of her influence. We could do a sassy, empowering song together!”

PET PEEVE

“My pet peeve list is pretty long, but I’ll spare you and go with my top annoyance: some people’s lack of respect for personal space. I spend most of my life in airports, and there’s nothing more infuriating than someone bumping into you while you’re going through security. The process is hectic enough! Phew… Sorry. I’m done venting now. :).”

SONG YOU WISH YOU’D WRITTEN

“I wish I had written ‘Cry’ by Faith Hill.”

WORD YOU SAY OVER AND OVER AGAIN

“I say the word ‘badass’ a lot. It’s not exactly the best thing to say on live TV so I’ve had to restrain myself!”

FAVORITE MODE OF TRANSPORTATION

“I’ve always loved flying.”

FAVORITE FOOD ON THE ROAD

“I try very hard to eat healthily but it’s the most difficult part of traveling. When I feel like splurging, I usually want Italian … I’m talkin’ pasta, ravioli and lasagna. Anything of that nature is what I crave when I wanna be naughty.”

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By Bob Doerschuk
© 2013 CMA Close Up® News Service / Country Music Association®, Inc.




AMC Renews The Walking Dead for Season Five

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Rebecca Murray
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Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon in 'The Walking Dead'
Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon in 'The Walking Dead' (Photo Credit:Frank Ockenfels 3/AMC)
Wow, you’d have to be one of the walking dead to have not seen this announcement coming. AMC has renewed The Walking Dead for a fifth season which was a totally expected move on the part of the network. Season four of the hit zombie series is currently sitting pretty at the #1 spot among adults 18-49.
 
The Walking Dead‘s fourth season premiere set a new record for the show by attracting 20.2 million viewers, which, according to AMC, is a record for “any non-sports cable telecast.”
 
“We are very happy to make what has to be one of the most anti-climactic renewal announcements ever: The Walking Dead is renewed for a fifth season,” stated Charlie Collier, AMC president, announcing the renewal. “This is a show that has erased traditional distinctions between cable and broadcast. Its expanding base of passionate fans has grown every season, most recently – and most notably – with the season four premiere earlier this month, which broke viewership records for the series and became the biggest non-sports telecast in cable history. On behalf of the incredible team on both sides of the camera, thank you to the fans and here’s to more Dead.”
 
The network also confirmed Scott Gimple will be back as showrunner and Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, David Alpert, Greg Nicotero and Tom Luse will return as executive producers.
 
One interesting little tidbit in the official announcement was the news of a companion series based on a new story and new characters from Robert Kirkman.
 
Source: AMC
 
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12-12-12 Theatrical Trailer is Packed with Rock Legends

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Who showed up to help raise money for Hurricane Sandy relief efforts? Check out this list of just some of the acts who performed at the special charity event and who are featured in the documentary film chronicling the historic fundraiser, 12-12-12:
 
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Billy Joel
Alicia Keys
Paul McCartney
Dave Grohl
Roger Waters
Eddie Vedder
Chris Martin
Michael Stipe
Eric Clapton
Jon Bon Jovi
The Rolling Stones
The Who
 
Also helping to raise funds for the relief effort were Adam Sandler, Billy Crystal, Susan Sarandon, Paul Shaffer, Brian Williams, Kristen Stewart, Jon Stewart, Chelsea Clinton, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Sean Combs, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi, Chris Rock, Seth Meyers, Jake Gyllenhaal, Blake Lively, Katie Holmes, Jason Sudekis, Jamie Foxx, Quentin Tarantino, and Christoph Waltz.
 
The Plot:
 
On December 12, 2012, some of entertainment’s most iconic names came together at Madison Square Garden for a historic concert to benefit the victims of Hurricane Sandy. 12-12-12 captures the unprecedented gathering of talent who turned up on stage and behind the scenes to raise over $50 million in one night for the Robin Hood Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund to support organizations helping victims in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
 
Watch the trailer:
 

 
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