Warner Bros. sets 'Argo' for Sept. 14

Warner Bros. will open Ben Affleck's hostage thriller "Argo" on Sept. 14. "Argo," which focuses on the operation in order to save six Us citizens inside the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, might be the 2nd title round the date following Sony's "Resident Evil 5." Warner introduced Wednesday it had dated "Gangster Squad" for March. 19, 2012. "Argo" is directed by Affleck and produced by George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Affleck. It stars Affleck, Alan Arkin, Bryan Cranston and John Goodman. Warner gave Affleck's "The CityInch the identical weekend a year ago, opening that title on Sept. 17. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Topless Beyonce Shocks Ireland Player

FIRST Launched: September 27, 2011 11:11 AM EDT DUBLIN, Ireland -- Northern Ireland player Alan Graham states he doesn't know who Beyonce is but she must keep her top on while undertaking on his land. Graham states he enforced a dress-up costume code while he seen Beyonce shoot videos Monday within the wheat area in Bangor, east of Belfast, on her behalf new single, We Found Love. Shes in Northern Ireland now to complete three concerts. The 23-year-old switched in the flannel checked shirt in to a stars-and-stripes bikini, a red-colored-colored bra, a mesh black top, and finally went topless before Graham rose off his tractor to protest. The health of undress was becoming inappropriate, Graham states. I'd a conversation withRihanna. I am hoping she knows where Im coming initially from from. We shook hands. Hordes of residents collected to check out the pop star film it. Copyright 2011 by Connected Press. All rights reserved.These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Social TV: 5 Must-Read Tips for Actors to Better Interact with Their Fans

Walden Schmidt Monday's premiere of Two and a Half Men scored 28.7 million viewers - the best in its nine-season history. Did the addition of social media rock star Ashton Kutcher and his 7.7 million Twitter followers have something to do with it? We'll probably never know for sure, but there's no question that harnessing the power of a loyal online fan base is an invaluable asset for any celebrity. We asked Kendall Aliment, a digital strategist at ID-PR, for five ways for actors to better engage their fans. 1. Think about more than NY and L.A. People who live in major cities on the East or West Coast probably already know the ins and outs of the business, but for a kid growing up in Iowa (Kutcher's home state) or North Dakota, it's something that they've only dreamed about. Your job may be old hat to you, but it is fascinating to your fans. When you're sitting on set, we get to see you, but what do you see? For example, little things like the fact that the shower doesn't actually work or the drawers in the kitchen can't open are the tidbits that fascinate fans. Check out our fall preview for galleries, scoop, premiere calendars and more! 2. Let your fans participate. If you're an actor or actress who gets to make decisions about what you wear on set, tweet a picture of three different pairs of shoes you're deciding between, and crowd-source a winner. Make the fans feel like they have a say in what the character wears, even if it's just her nail polish. Give them that insider access. They'll want to tune in to see what was decided, and they'll feel like they got a payoff for weighing in. 3. Tweet for yourself - and prove it! A lot of celebs have other people tweet for them, but if you can prove through photos and videos that you're the one tweeting and you're authentically involved, that's always amazing. There's no doubt that Russell Brand's tweeting - he famously posted a photo of his wife, Katy Perry, with no makeup on. On your Facebook page, create a one-minute introductory video explaining that this is your verified page and you can't wait to interact with everyone online. Kutcher's Two and a Half Men Debut Gets Idol-Like Numbers; Sheen Set Record 4. Watch the show with your fans. Following actors' live tweets when they're watching their own show can be fascinating. Similar to a director's commentary on DVD, this gives you the opportunity to share the behind-the-scenes details, dish out juicy gossip from the set and answer viewer questions in real time. Kyra Sedgwick, Sasha Alexander and Jeff Probst have all seen a huge surge in followers by doing this and are sharing information that fans could never get elsewhere. 5. Highlight your passions other than acting. Why are you interesting? An actor is always behind the shield of the writers, but in your everyday life, what makes you different and what sets you apart? If you're a fantasy football fan, live-tweet games. If you have a unique point of view on fashion or photography, share! Tracee Ellis Ross is a self-described fashionista and her fans follow every tweet to get the scoop on what they should be wearing and how to perfectly style their hair. If you're just talking about yourself and your projects, people won't care unless they're a super-fan. Share who you are with fans, and not just what you're working on. Kendall Aliment works on the Digital Strategy team at ID-PR, a digital, entertainment and brand communications agency.

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Lionsgate nabs 'You're Next'

Lionsgate has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to Adam Wingard's horror thriller ''You're Next'' following its screenings at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival.Deal was announced Wednesday."You're Next," from a script by Simon Barrett, stars Sharni Vinson, Joe Swanberg, A.J. Bowen, Nicholas Tucci and Barbara Crampton.Snoot Entertainment's Keith Calder and Jessica Wu produced with Barrett and Kim Sherman."You're Next" reunites the key cast from Wingard and Barrett's serial-killer thriller "A Horrible Way to Die," which screened last year at TIFF.Story for "You're Next" is set during a family reunion getaway with the family coming under a sadistic attack as a gang of mysterious killers begin to hunt the family down with brutal precision. Unfortunately for the killers however, one of the victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.Jason Constantine negotiated the deal on behalf of Lionsgate with Eda Kowan, SVP of Acquisitions and Co-Productions, and Wendy Jaffe, the Acquisitions and Co-Production team's EVP of Business & Legal Affairs. Snoot Entertainment is repped by CAA, which negotiated the sale on their behalf with Erik Hyman of Loeb & Loeb. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

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Aubrey Dollar and Karl Burns are science students who find romance behind their nerd-speak. A Playwrights Horizons presentation of the play in 2 functions by Itamar Moses. Directed by Pam MacKinnon.Elliot - Karl Burns Molly - Aubrey Dollar Lauren, et al - Meredith Forlenza Don, et al - John AversThat deadly theatrical form, the romcom, will get a jolt of existence from Itamar Moses, going for a break from his TV writing chores (on "Boardwalk Empire" and "Males of the Certain Age") to pen an intimate comedy that does not turn the stomach or insult the intelligence. Although "Completeness" observes the conventional conventions of the cute-couple comedy, Moses ascribes a contempo sensibility to his figures, grad-school researchers who hide their personal anxieties behind torrents of remarkably lyrical nerd-speak. As performed by two appealing leads, these children are in good hands, however their romance includes a difficult time making it through an uncomfortable second act. The highly structured turning set (by David Zinn) and also the hi-tech style of the lighting (Russell H. Champa) and video forecasts (Rocco DiSanti) play a vital role for the reason that problematical second act, making an enormous literal point concerning the way technology can both assist and slow down human connections. However the only set pieces that count would be the sterile computer cluster where Elliot (Karl Burns) and Molly (Aubrey Dollar) meet cute and also the large warm mattress where they dare to become human. Burns, an uncommon and true find who seems to possess evaded the interest from the Hollywood studio talent bandits, is really a pleasant artist that Elliot, some type of computer science grad student in an undesignated college, wins our hearts before he even opens his mouth. The lovestruck lad is really socially tongue-tied and physically uncoordinated that Molly, the molecular biologist he's been trying to get, needs to arrived at his save by requesting assist with an experiment which has been sickness data that's "kind of noisy and filled with garbage." Molly's a charmer, but she's also formidably wise and certain of herself, and Dollar will get extra credit for letting us observe that fine intelligence together with her flirty various insecurities. So score two for helmer Pam MacKinnon ("Clybourne Park"), who also directed the play if this preemed at South Coast Repetition. Really, score four with this helmer, because John Avers and Meredith Forlenza are lots of fun to look at because the various ex-enthusiasts and would-be enthusiasts who actually result in the plot look more difficult than. Would that Moses had given these figures more to complete within the second act, when Elliot and Molly possess the large breakup that's virtually obligatory in romantic comedies. For whatever reason, the playwright neglected the mechanical plot engineering essential to support some plausible dramatic complications for that breakup, which feels abrupt and inadequately motivated. In a single respect, Elliot and Molly are just like numerous other enthusiasts in numerous other plays: They are cautious about commitment and wish some assurances they will not be hurt when they disappointed their guard. But Moses poses this eternal question within an original and interesting way, by which makes it the nub from the biology science problem that Elliot attempts to solve using the data-mining formula he programs for Molly. Then when these articulate enthusiasts with excitement speak (in streams of dense but oddly musical technical language) of brute pressure calculations that may organize public of options into workable, even foreseeable odds, they're really calculating their very own likelihood of getting hurt. The metaphors might not be on the componen using the imagery in "Ode on the Grecian Urn," but every generation talks its very own poetry and Moses appears to achieve the ear for this.Sets and costumes, David Zinn lighting, Russell H. Champa original music and seem design, Bray Poor forecasts and video, Rocco DiSanti production stage manager, Charles M. Turner III. Opened up Sept. 13, 2011. Examined Sept. 8. Running time: 2 Hrs, 20 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Sweet and Sad

An exhibition through the Public Theater of the Public Lab manufacture of a play in a single act written and directed by Richard Nelson.Richard Apple - Jay O. SandersBarbara Apple - Maryann PlunkettMarian Apple Platt - Laila RobinsJane Apple Halls - J. Cruz-CameronBenjamin Apple - Jon DeVriesTim Andrews - Shuler HensleyTo speak or otherwise to talk -- this is the question behind "Sweet and Sad," the 2nd play in Richard Nelson's forecasted trilogy concerning the Apple family. Directed with extreme delicacy through the playwright and perfectly carried out through the same cast that came from the figures (in "That Hopey Changey Factor"), the play happens about the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and seriously observes this politically liberal family battling to keep its moral equilibrium inside a world that no more reflects its values. The speaking points are provocative -- otherwise as poignant as whatever they can't bring themselves to express. Nothing can compare to a household meal to help keep people from speaking about what's really on the minds. Between setting the table and clearing the table (that is basically time length of the play), you will find a large number of possibilities to help keep the Apples from getting open, honest discussions. Barbara (Maryann Plunkett), a higher school teacher who lives together with her uncle Benjamin (John DeVries) in Rhinebeck, is most skilled at such stalling tactics as flowing your wine and offering the dessert. "Is today a real day to speak politics?" she anxiously asks, when brother Richard (Jay O. Sanders), a company lawyer who now works best for the enemy on Wall Street, shows a inclination to question the Democratic party line. Marian (Laila Robins), who lately moved along with her uncle and sister, results in the dining room table and buries herself inside a Harry Potter novel whenever among her brothers and sisters miracles where her husband is or makes supportive noises about her daughter, who committed suicide. Jane (J. Cruz-Cameron), the 3rd sister within this Chekhovian family pod, is really a journalist and really appears receptive to brother Richard's soul-searching. However when he miracles aloud whether it may be time for you to stop public observances of 9/11, it's Jane who jumps up to find the coffee. Nelson the playwright has had infinite care creating these aborted conversations. Dealing with great assurance on Susan Hilferty's homey set and under Jennifer Tipton's wealthy lighting, Nelson the director presents these interlocking trades in geometrically precise designs. Its not all little bit of this spare, highly naturalistic dialogue remains up up. Every once in awhile, and particularly in the finish from the play once the family prepares to depart for any 9/11 memorial service, someone handles to accomplish a concept or react to something that's been stated. Tim (Shuler Hensley), the actor-waiter who lives with Jane in Manhattan and is an ideal easily fit in this family, stands his ground on the couple of politically touchy points. He even dares to question the justification for assigning the sufferers of 9/11 as "heroes" -- a topic that Barbara also boosts within the challenging listing of subjects she's given to her students. When the conversational ball begins moving, Richard even dares to talk significantly of Leader Obama and the "jeopardized" concepts, which, getting been jeopardized, are no more "concepts." They are wise, thoughtful people, and there is something "sweet and sad" indeed regarding their wavering belief within their jeopardized concepts. But undertake and don't offers anything as profoundly moving because the Wally Whitman poem praising the sufferers from the Civil War which comes in the finish from the play. The reading through from the poem is designated to Uncle Benjamin, a noted actor who lost a lot of his memory after cardiac arrest, but is fit enough to provide the reading through in the memorial service. Such as the small stroke which has clouded Richard's vision, Uncle Benjamin's amnesia signifies something much deeper: losing the household's shared history. As Jon DeVries provides the verses, with utter simplicity, the discomfort of the collective loss dangles up -- after which progresses.Models and costumes, Susan Hilferty lighting, Jennifer Tipton seem, Scott Lehrer and can Pickens production stage manger, Pamela Salling. Opened up and examined Sept. 11, 2011. Running time: 1 Hour, 5 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

'Dancing Using the Stars' Contestant Chaz Bono Talks Out Against Experts

Chaz Bono is protecting his to compete on Dwts against experts who say he shouldn't have the ability to be a part of ABC's reality competition.our editor recommends'Dancing using the Stars' Chaz Bono Jokes Place Chelsea Handler in serious trouble with GLAAD'Dancing Using the Stars': Chaz Bono Is really a Lengthy Shot Based on Online Betting SiteChaz Bono's 'Becoming Chaz': What Experts SayChaz Bono's Repetition: 'No Way Could he Back Down' from 'Dancing Using the Stars' (Video)Related Subjects•Dancing Using the Stars "It's helped me realize I'm really glad I'm carrying this out, because America really must check this out,Inch the transgender activist told ABC News. PHOTOS: Satisfy the Season 13 Cast of 'Dancing Using the Stars' Since ABC's official announcement the transgender star was area of the Season 13 cast, the network's forum continues to be flooded with angry complaints. Meanwhile, conservative parents groups and media organizations have known as for any boycott from the show. OneMillionMoms.com, for instance, authored on its website the casting of Bono "is totally unacceptable and Christian believers shouldn't watch the show, no excuses!" But Bono stated the backlash has strengthened his belief he's doing the best factor. STORY: 'Dancing Using the Stars' Air Addresses Chaz Bono Backlash "You realize, it simply type of shows why for me personally it's vital that you be on the program, because so very little is still known by what this means to become transgender," he stated. "There's a lot of just completely inaccurate stereotypes and ideas that individuals have." His mother, Cher, also offers protecting him on Twitter, saying "it required guts" for him to get familiar with DWTS. "I support him regardless of what he selects 2do," she tweeted. "It required courage to complete DWTS!" STORY:'Dancing Using the Stars' Air Discloses Why Chaz Bono Is a great Fit for Show As well as in a job interview using the Hollywood Reporter a week ago, DWTS executive producer Conrad Eco-friendly stated he thinks the negative people out there might change their marbles after they see him about the party area. "The one thing that's also worth recalling among the wonderful features in our show is we've got a significant broad-minded audience who're frequently willing and give people an opportunity,Inch Eco-friendly stated. "They may have expectations about a number of our celebs before they meet them on the program, but on our show you're able to see people in ways you've never witnessed them before." VIDEO: 'Dancing using the Stars' Chaz Bono States He's Cher's Approval Bono made head lines last year when he introduced his intend to undergo a sex change. He later authored a magazine concerning the experience and made an appearance inside a documentary concerning the transition, Becoming Chaz, that broadcast on OWN: The The famous host oprah Winfrey Network, in May. Bono continues to be combined with professional partner Lacey Schwimmer for that approaching season of DWTS, which premieres at 8 p.m. Sept. 19. Related Subjects Chaz Bono Reality TV Dwts ABC News