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Mammoth Opening For Twilight New Moon Internationally Let the Craziness begin. Film Opens at Midnight tonight. These are all estimates. But in Australia today, NEW MOON's midnight results were the highest grossing midnight screening since STAR WARS: EPISODE 3 (which garnered $1.2M USD in May 2005). NEW MOON played on 466 screens and grossed a phenomenal $1.6M. On Wednesday, NEW MOON launched No. 1 in France with 488,000 admissions for its first day from 751 resulting with $4.36M on Day One -- which is 4 times what TWILIGHT did (140,960 admissions and gross $1.15M). Also Wednesday, NEW MOON grossed $2.7M in Italy from 625 screens in its first day of release, with screens still to report. Currently NEW MOON is the 3rd highest Wednesday opening ever in Italy behind HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE and HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX. In Spain NEW MOON opened Wednesday with $2.2M from 652 screens. The 3rd best Wednesday opening day ever, just behind HARRY POTTER AND THE

Jason Lee Jumps In The "Delta Blues," Show To Be Produced By George Clooney My Name Is Earl" star Jason Lee is jumping back into TV as the lead in "Delta Blues," TNT's pilot executive produced by George Clooney. The hourlong "Delta Blues," from Clooney and Grant Heslov's Smokehouse Pictures and Warner Horizon, centers on Dwight Hendricks (Lee), a Memphis police officer who lives with his mother and moonlights as an Elvis impersonator. Michael Wright, TNT and TBS head of programming, called Lee "the ideal choice to bring the compelling, off-kilter Dwight Hendricks to life." Clark Johnson is directing the pilot from a script by Liz M. Garcia and Joshua Harto. Clooney, Heslov, Garcia and Johnson serve as executive producers, with Henry Bronchtein and Abby Wolf-Weiss co-exec producing and Harto producing. Lee came close to toplining a series on TNT sister network TBS this year when TBS tried to continue "Earl" following its can

Brad Pitt To Star In "Dark Void" Brad Pitt's Plan B and Indian media conglom Reliance Big Pictures have inked a deal with videogame company Capcom to develop a feature film based on the " Dark Void " computer game as a potential franchise and starring vehicle for the actor. Capcom will release "Dark Void," about a pilot who crash lands in the Bermuda Triangle following a routine mission and wakes up to find himself in an alternate world resembling a primitive earth where aliens with superior technology are planning to take over civilization, in North America and Europe in January next year. Project is the first to come out of Reliance's development silo with Plan B after the deal was first announced at the Cannes film festival last year Please Leave A Comment- Source- Variety

Eddie Murphy To Produce“The Misadventures of Fluffy” The A-lister is attached to produce and could potentially star in “The Misadventures of Fluffy,” a new buddy comedy that’s been set up at Paramount. Sam Pitman and Adam Cole-Kelly sold the pitch for the R-rated comedy and will write the script. The project is described as a road trip pic through New York featuring talking animals, and with an element of social comedy reminiscent of Murphy’s 1980’s hit “Trading Places.” Insiders emphasize that while Murphy is formally attached to produce, he is not formally attached to star at this point. Please Leave A Comment- Source- THR

Variety Review Of Twilight Saga:New Moon Spoiler Alert-If your going to watch this week u have been warned!! With more bark than bite, "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" finds its brooding heroine torn from her depressive, bloodsucking boyfriend and thrust into the claws of a hunky werewolf. That's sort of like being caught between a rock and a hard place (or, in high school terms, between a Goth and a jock), and this second screen installment of Stephenie Meyer's bestselling series focuses, somewhat convincingly, on the emotions of an 18-year-old coping with her undying love of the undead. Carried by Kristen Stewart's compellingly dark performance, but also by helmer Chris Weitz's robust visuals, "Moon" should cause boffo B.O. tides and could outperform its predecessor, which grossed $383 million worldwide. While this second chapter of Summit Entertainment's four-part franchise is as good as "Twilight" and arguably a shade better, it's

ABC's V Rating Crashing Even More Wow, looks like ABC's V is definitely in trouble. Last night's third episode saw ratings and audience drop significantly again, down 18 percent to 9.3 million (3.1 rating among adults 18-49), according to The Hollywood Reporter's Live Feed blog. That after a precipitous 29 percent drop in week two from the blockbuster premiere. We're going to go out on a limb and say that the lizard aliens won't be on Earth for very long. Remember, ABC is airing only four episodes now (the last one airs next week) and was planning on returning to the air next spring with the final episodes of season one. We don't know, but we've always thought this was ABC's way of not committing to the production of the show before they had a good sense of which way the audience would go; as the production was slated to start up again next month or so, we're thinking they'll just go ahead and pull the plug once the four eps have aired. Relat

Steven Seagal Lawman Premieres On A&E In December When I first heard this I thought to myself no way. But from what I have seen this is for real and it's the old Steven Seagal (a few extra pounds) Be the first to see A&E's newest Real Life series Steven Seagal Lawman! AETV.com is presenting a special, one-time-only, back-to-back online screening of the premiere episode of Steven Seagal Lawman on Wednesday, November 18 at 8pm ET/5pm PT. Come back to this page tonight at 8pm ET/5pm PT to see the show, or you'll have to wait until the series premieres on A&E on Wednesday, December 2. Steven Seagal Lawman - His movies have grossed more than $2 billion worldwide. He is an expert martial artist with a 7th-degree black belt in Aikido. He's considered to be in the same class of action hero as Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger. However, Steven Seagal isn't just an action hero in the movies. For almost 20 years, Seagal has been working as a fully commis

McSteamy Joins Cast Of "Burlesque" "Grey's Anatomy" star Eric Dane will round out the ensemble cast of Screen Gems' upcoming musical "Burlesque." Cher, Christina Aguilera, Stanley Tucci, Cam Gigandet, Kristen Bell and Alan Cumming have already boarded the project, written and to be helmed by Steve Antin. Donald De Line will produce via his De Line Pictures banner. Story centers on Ali, an ambitious small-town girl with a big-town voice (Aguilera) who finds love, family and success in a neo-burlesque club. Dane will play Marcus, a charming, successful businessman who offers to buy Tess (Cher) out of the burlesque club and vies for Ali's heart. Please Leave A Comment- Source- Variety

Jennifer Hudson To Play Winnie Mandela Jennifer Hudson, the former American Idol contestant who won the oscar in her first screen role in "Dreamgirls," is ready for her next challenge. Hudson will star in “Winnie,” a drama that casts her as the former wife of South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela. Hudson will play Winnie Mandela in a film that begins production May 30 in the South African locations of Johannesburg, Capt Town, and the Transkei and Robben Island where the future president spent 18 of his 27 years in prison. “Winnie” will be directed by Darrell J. Roodt, the veteran South African filmmaker whose 2006 film “Yesterday” was Africa’s Best Foreign Film nominee, and who also directed “Cry, The Beloved Country,” and “Sarafina!” Andre Pieterse, Roodt and Paul L. Johnson wrote a script based on the Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob biography “Winnie Mandela:A Life.” Picture is being made with South African and Canadian money, with Pieterse producing with Michael

Zack Snyder's "Guardians of Ga'hoole" Adds All Star Cast Sam Neill, Geoffrey Rush, Hugo Weaving and David Wenham will topline the voice cast of Animal Logic's 3D animated feature, " Guardians of Ga'hoole ," distributor Roadshow Films said Wednesday. The big-budget fantasy film, in production in Sydney and directed by Zack Snyder, also will feature the voices of Aussie actors Emily Barclay, Abbie Cornish, Emilie de Ravin, Ryan Kwanten and Jay Laga'aia, as well as English actors Miriam Margolyes, Helen Mirren and Jim Sturgess. The film follows Soren, a young owl enthralled by his father's epic stories of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole, a mythic band of winged warriors who had fought a great battle to save all of owlkind from the evil Pure Ones. A Warner Bros./Village Roadshow Pictures film, "Guardians of Ga'hoole" is being set for release in Australia on Dec. 9, 2010. Please Leave A Comment- Source- THR