Keck's Exclusives: Hot in Cleveland's New Coupling

Hot In Cleveland Hot in Cleveland's latest stunt reunites Wendie Malick with Laura San Giacomo, her costar from NBC's Just Shoot Me! Laura guest stars on the December 14 episode of the TV Land hit, but most of her scenes are with Valerie Bertinelli's Melanie. "I play Valerie's [estranged] sister, Caroline," says Laura. Caroline reveals she's a lesbian involved with a character played by Sandra Bernhard. Turns out ex-soap star Victoria (Wendie) is pretending to be gay after her fake marriage to Joy (Jane Leeves) reignites her celebrity. "They're all at this lesbian event where I am, and therein lies the hilarity," adds Laura. But Wendie says the episode also has a serious message. "Laura has a fabulous scene talking about growing up gay and not being able to tell your family," she says. "It should earn her a GLAAD Award nomination." Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Sean Penn Calls Tea Party the 'Get the N-Word From the Whitened House Party' (Video)

Sean Penn originates out swinging from the Tea Party, accusing the ultra-conservative moment to be motivated mainly with a racist agenda.our editor recommendsSean Penn Performed Role in assisting Free Two American Hostages in IranMorgan Freeman Sparks Outcry After Calling Tea Party RacistMatt Damon Jams Republicans, Tea Party To Handle of Debt Ceiling Crisis (VIDEO) Throughout his appearance Friday on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight, the actor accused the Tea Party to be a "distraction" within the approaching presidential elections. PHOTOS: Sean Penn's Humanitarian Operate in Haiti "Yet there's one other issue,Inch he started. "You've things i call the 'Get the N-word from the Whitened House party,' the Tea Party. This type of sensibility, which is a lot more of the distraction." Penn stated he thinks the Tea Party is available simply to get Leader Obama from the Whitened House which its people don't know much concerning the issues themselves. PHOTOS: Box Office Politics: The Films and Stars Dems versus. GOPers Love (And Like to Hate) "I don't think there's question about this: Should you request any associated with the Tea Party, 'OK, Social Security, socialist, eliminate it?'' they're getting very confused. In the finish during the day, there's a large bubble being released of the heads, saying, 'Can we simply lynch him?" PHOTOS: Stars Who've Performed Political figures Penn's remarks echo similar comments produced by Morgan Freeman recently, also on Piers Morgan Tonight. The Dolphin Tale star then stated the Tea Party's "mentioned policy, openly mentioned, would be to do whatever needs doing to ensure that Obama only serves one term. What ... underlines that? Screw the nation. We're likely to do whatever we all do to obtain this black guy ... out of here." THR COVER STORY: Sean Penn in Haiti The Great Wife's Alan Cumming also offers accused the Tea Party to be motivated by "homophobia and racism." Related Subjects Alan Cumming Morgan Freeman Piers Morgan Sean Penn CNN Piers Morgan Tonight Politics

DeAPlaneta leads Shochiku up 'Blind Alley'

SITGES, Spain -- Japan's Shochiku has acquired all Japanese rights to Spanish horror film "Blind Alley," which world preems in Competition Friday at the Sitges Festival.Spain's DeAPlaneta closed the deal. It adds to other pre-sales struck on "Alley" before DeAPlaneta took on sales duties on the title, such as for Mexico (Corazon Films), Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia.The feature debut of Spanish screenwriter-turned director Antonio Trashorras, whose credits as a scribe include Guillermo del Toro's 2001 "The Devil's Backbone," "Alley" turns on a young cleaning woman at an off-season hotel in Benidorm who accidentally locks herself up in the laundry with an apparent psycho-killer."'Blind Alley' observes the rules of the horror genre: It takes place over one night, there's a beautiful girl in distress, and a threat in the shadows," said Gorka Bilbao, DeAPlaneta sales exec.Cuban-born Ana de Armas, one of Spain's fastest-rising young film/TV actresses ("Sex, Party and Lies," "7 Days in Havana"), plays the young woman. Chile-born Leonor Varela ("Blade II," "Arrested Development") and Colombian TV and film actor Diego Cadavid ("A Ton of Luck") co-star."Alley" is produced by Miguel Angel Faura's Roxbury, one of Spain's top quality-genre producers, TV-turned-film production house Esa Mano Amiga and Antena 3 Films, co-producer of Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's current Spanish chart-topper "Intruders," as well as Dynamo Capital, Colombia's biggest private equity film fund.Dynamo has rights to Latin America, DeAPlaneta to the rest of the world outside Spain, Bilbao said.After Sitges, "Alley" will next be seen at Fanomenon in Leeds in the U.K. Market premiere will be at November's American Film Market.Catalonia's Sitges fest closes Saturday. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Yellow Bird producer flies to Film London market

LONDON -- Marianne Gray, a producer from Sweden's Yellow Bird, can provide the keynote address within the Film London Production Finance Market, which happens March. 19-20 through the London Film Festival. Gray, who started her career in La utilized by various major art galleries, produced Norwegian feature "Headhunters" in addition to produce the U.S. remake with Summit Entertainment. Yellowbird may be the organization behind the first Swedish film adaptations of author Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy of books. The initial, "The Woman While using Dragon Tattoo," remains remade by helmer David Fincher. Starring Difficulties, it opens inside the U.S. on 12 ,. 21. Over 60 producers have registered with this particular year's Production Finance Market, getting development projects to talk about with 57 bankers, including private equity finance traders, sales companies, entrepreneurs, tv producers and tax funds. Among the projects, with total production budgets of $330 million, are John Maybury's "Atomic Blonde," Sally Potter's "Elsewhere" and Gillian Armstrong's "The Fantastic,In . that Mia Wasikowska and Annette Bening are apparently attached. Companies attending include Vital Pictures Intl., Focus Features, Endgame Entertainment, Pinewood Films, Wild Bunch and Entertainment One. Several new areas will probably be represented, including Luxembourg, Macedonia and Belgium. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Robot Real Steel Wins Weekend By TKO George Clooneys The Ides Of March #2

SATURDAY PM,second UPDATE: Following a mammoth marketing push to function up mediocre monitoring, DreamWorks/Disney’s Real Steel centered its northern border American box officeall weekend with Disney confirmingrosses up +30% from Friday to Saturday for any $29M opening weekend.The Rob levy directed bot fight starring Hugh Jackmanreceived an uncommon’A’ CinemaScore overall and’A+’ from moviegoers under age 25.Issue is Hollywood might have beenimpressed only when the end result was mid-$30sM as this action pic includes a family overlay and it is budget was $110+M. By comparison, director, star, author, and producer George Clooney’s newcomer The Ides Of March had merely a $12.5M production budget after rebates. But this R-ranked adult political thriller co-starring Ryan Gosling washard to market for The new sony Pictures. Though well-examined along with a hit at both Venice and Toronto Film Festivals, audiences gave it simply a ‘B’ CinemaScore and individuals under age 25 presented a ‘B+’.The piceked out $10.5M, under the modestweekend whichHollywood expected. Alcon Entertainment/Warner Bros’ Dolphin Tale held well again making $9M by Sunday evening. Same good hold for The new sony Pictures’ baseball pic Moneyball with $7.3Mbut less so forthe studio’s belief-based Sherwood Pictures’ Courageous with $4.6M. Summit Entertainment’s cancer dramedy 50/50 held perfectly and wound up with $5.3M range. Universal’s Dream Home is not too dreamy having a pretty hefty weekend-to-weekend percentage drop. And Disney’s Lion King three dimensional might be securely in the cage after its Blu-Ray release. Listed here are the Top10 movies in the United States box office tonight. Analysis coming: 1. Real Steel (DreamWorks/Disney) NEW [3,440 Theaters] Friday $8.5M, Saturday $12M,Weekend $29M 2. The Ides Of March (Smokehouse/The new sony) NEW [2,199 Theaters] Friday $3.4M, Saturday $4.3M, Weekend $10.5M 3.Dolphin Tale (Alcon/Warner Bros) Week 3 [3,478 Theaters] Friday $2.4M, Saturday #3.7M,Weekend $9M, Cume $48.9M 4. Moneyball (The new sony) Week 3 [3,018 Theaters] Friday $2.2M, Saturday $3.1M,Weekend $7.3M, Believed Cume $49.1M 5. 50/50 (Summit Entertainment) Week 2 [2,479 Theaters] Friday $1.7M, Saturday $2.2M,Weekend $5.3M (-39%),Cume $17.1M 6. Courageous (Sherwood/The new sony) Week 2 [1,161 Theaters] Friday $1.3M, Saturday $1.8M,Weekend $4.6M (-49%), Believed Cume $15.9M 7. Lion King three dimensional (Disney) Week 4 [2,267 Theaters] Friday $1.2M, Saturday $1.9M,Weekend $4.5M,Cume $85.9M 8. Dream House (Universal) Week 2 [2,664 Theaters] Friday $1.3M, Saturday $1.9M,Weekend $4.4M, Cume $14.4M 9. What’s Your Number? (Fox) Week 2 [3,011 Theaters] Friday $1M, Saturday $3M,Weekend $3M, Believed Cume $10.3M 10. Abduction (Lionsgate) Week 3 [2,591 Theaters] Friday $865K, Saturday $1.3M, Weekend $3M, Cume $23.4M

The 10 Greatest Performances in Political Thrillers

If The Ides of March has taught us anything before its release, it’s that the political thriller is a fabulous forum to act well, build a surprising character and look amazing doing it. The genre of “political thriller” is an ill-defined one with many subgenres (including “supernatural political thriller”!), but it’s always an opportunity for great characters to emerge through intriguing twists, red herrings and explosive climaxes. Movieline ranks the 10 best performances in the genre after the jump; please abort any nuclear wars you may have started before reading on. 10. Joan Allen in The Contender (2000) Joan Allen scored her third Academy Award nomination as Laine Henson, the shrewd vice presidential candidate who is stalwart in protecting her past, even if exposing it would clear her of damning allegations. In this climactic scene, Henson opens up to the president (Jeff Bridges) and scintillates with her straightforward morality. 9. James Stewart in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) James Stewart frequently played deep, aloof protagonists who found themselves in dizzying circumstances in Hitchcock’s movies, and The Man Who Knew Too Much is no exception. As Dr. Ben McKenna, whose son has been kidnapped in a predictably crazy plot, Stewart finds himself trying to save the life of a head of state at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Stewart’s hustle as we await the all-important crash of cymbals makes for one of Hitchcock’s most thrilling climaxes. You can stop singing “Que, Sera, Sera” now, Doris Day. 8. Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon (2008) It may be a slightly arch impersonation, but Frank Langella’s performance as Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon required a plainspoken charisma that the actor brings thoroughly. All of Michael Sheen’s reactive mugging is justified thanks to Langella’s offbeat provocations.

Bono on Steve Jobs: 'We Will All Miss the Hardware Software Elvis'

U2's Bono praised Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as the "hardware software Elvis" and "one of a very small group of anarchic Americans who through technology literally invented the 21st century" in a statement Thursday.our editor recommendsGeorge Lucas Reacts to Steve Jobs' DeathSteve Jobs Death: Tech and Entertainment Industry Reacts10 Hip-Hop Songs Referencing Steve Jobs (Video)Steve Jobs Remembered by Edgar Bronfman Jr., Martin Bandier and Other Executives Steve Jobs Remembered By Disney, Pixar ExecsRelated Topics•Steve Jobs Jobs, who died Wednesday at the age of 56, collaborated with the singer on a U2 iPod, and more importantly for Bono, on the (RED) Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. PHOTOS: 10 Memorable Milestones of the Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs' Career Bono said, "What made Steve Jobs truly great is that he was only interested in doing truly great things. He was bored by an easy ride or easy profit. In a world littered with dull objects, he brought the beauty of clean lines and clear thought. This rhyme of intellect and intuition could be applied to a wide range of subjects from the US education system, to sculpture, to the fight against HIV/AIDS where his support of (RED) literally transformed the lives of two million people in Africa." Bono had defended Jobs' philanthropic efforts in a NY Times op-ed piece in early Sept. in response to an article by Andrew Ross Sorkin accusing the tech innovator of not contributing enough of his fortune to charity. Bono wrote at the time, "Steve Jobs said when we first approached him about (RED), 'There is nothing better than the chance to save lives.' " He also pointed out that Apple was (Product)RED's largest contributer with "tens of millions of dollars" in donations from the sale of (RED) iPods and other products. VIDEO: Remembering Steve Jobs In his statement Thursday, Bono also hailed Jobs as a true innovator "I already miss him...one of a very small group of anarchic Americans who through technology literally invented the 21st century. We will all miss the hardware software Elvis." He added, "He changed music. He changed film. He changed the personal computer and turned telephony on its head while he was at it. He was tenacious in the extreme, his toughness never more evident than these past few years in his fight for his life as well as his companies. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Notable Deaths "Steve told me as proud as he was of Apple and Pixar, his real pride was his family. He was a thoughtful and tender father, and loved nothing more than hanging out in the house with his belle Laurene and the kids." Jobs died after a years-long battle with pancreatic cancer. Related Topics Steve Jobs Bono