Daniel Radcliffe to experience Allen Ginsberg: Report

From Potter to poetry? Based on Twitch, Daniel Radcliffe is placed to experience famous beat poet Allen Ginsberg within the approaching movie 'Kill Your Darlings.' The film, written and directed by John Krokidas, involves the connection between Ginsberg, author Jack Kerouac and Lucien Carr. Jesse Eisenberg, Chris Evans and Ben Whishaw were initially connected to the roles of Ginsberg, Kerouac and Carr, but have since dropped out. Previously Tuesday, MTV published a job interview with Radcliffe, in which the actor spoke about trying his hands at poetry -- a tale which makes much more sense with the actor's Ginsberg casting. "I really authored a poem yesterday the very first time within eight several weeks and that i went, 'Ah, really that's half decent.' Anything else I have written continues to be garbage, however i authored something yesterday I had been really happy with,Inch he stated. 'Kill Your Darlings' is placed for any 2012 release. [via Vulture and Twitch] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

International Emmy Awards: Lady Gaga Steals Show, Nigel Lythgoe Bashes Simon Cowell

NY -- Lady Gaga stole the show at the 39th annual International Emmy Awards.our editor recommendsLady Gaga Presents Nigel Lythgoe With International Emmy Award'American Idol's' Nigel Lythgoe Slams Twitter Followers Over 'X Factor'Nigel Lythgoe Developing New Reality Projects With Kim Kardashian, Alice Cooper, More (Exclusive)Nigel Lythgoe, CW in Talks for Family Singing Competition SeriesNigel Lythgoe's 'CMT's Next Superstar' Renewed for Second SeasonLady Gaga's Thanksgiving Special Includes Tony Bennett, Turkey Carving (Video)Lady Gaga's Former Creative Director Laurieann Gibson Speaks Out on Split (Exclusive)Lady Gaga's Former Manhattan Apartment Available for RentRelated Topics•Lady Gaga•American Idol The pop star made a surprise appearance to bestow the Founders Award on Nigel Lythgoe, executive producer of American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance. "He always spoke poetically about the pursuit of widening the boundaries of love and acceptance in TV," she said. PHOTOS: 'American Idol Live' Tour in Pictures Lythgoe received the award for his outstanding contributions to dance and performing arts on television. Gaga introduced a video tribute to Lythgoe that heavily featured American Idol judges Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez and host Ryan Seacrest alternately honoring and ribbing the American Idol exec producer. When the video ended and the lights came back up, Gaga quipped: "I think the four of them are really jealous. It takes a fool to judge but a true genius to find talent." Lythgoe called Gaga "the most creatively talented woman working in show business right now." He also singled out the original Idol judges. "Three judges that will never ever be forgotten: Paula Abdul, Randy Jackson and ah ...," he said, purposely blanking on former judgeSimon Cowell's name. PHOTOS: An 'American Idol' to 'X Factor' Timeline "Simon Cowell unfortunately can't be here tonight due to injuries from self-inflected love bites," said Lythgoe to laughter from the audience gathered at the NY Hilton on Monday night. "I now call Simon Lord Voldemort, because he must not be named, because every time I name him, the press says we are enemies, and (we) are fighting each other," he added of the X Factor judge. "That's not truthful. Simon has no enemies whatsoever in the world, but a lot of friends who hate him." Lythgoe cited the illustrious company he is now in as a Founders Award winner, including Al Gore, Sir David Frost, Steven Spielberg and Cowell. "That is a Vice President, a Knight of the Realm, a wandering Knight of the Realm ... and God." Lythgoe also singled out Fox reality chief Mike Darnell -- who was in attendance and whom Lythgoe urged to stand. PHOTOS: 'American Idol' and TV's Other Most Expensive Primetime Shows for Advertisers "People joke about Mike's height," said Lythgoe of the diminutive Darnell. "He is, after all, one of the few people I know who's got a full-length photograph of himself in his passport. He may be small in stature, but trust me, this man is enormous in talent. His support on American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance has been both productive and invaluable to me." Lythgoe concluded his acceptance speech with a heartfelt thank-you to Simon Fuller, Idol creator and Dance co-creator. "I tonight for some reason have been given the title of creator of American Idol," he said. "That is absolutely not true. The creator of American Idol is a gentleman who came up to me 11 years ago and said I have got this idea for a [talent] show and people telephone in and vote for people. I naturally said that is a terrible idea -- it will never work." Some years later, Fuller pitched the same idea for a dance competition show, prompting the same response from Lythgoe. "Thank God he changed my mind on both occasions," he said. "Simon, thank you, thank you, thank you. Without you, I would not be here." PHOTOS: Behind the Scenes: THR's 'X Factor' Cover Shoot Subhash Chandra, chairman of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited and founder of the Essel Group, accepted the Directorate Award. Chandra, who left immediately after his speech to fly back to Mumbai in time for his nephew's wedding, revolutionized India's television industry when in 1992 he launched the country's first satellite Hindi channel, ZEE TV. Today, ZEE Network is the largest producer of Hindi programming in the world with 25 channels and over 600 million viewers in 167 countries. In his acceptance speech immediately following Lythgoe's, Chandra noted that an Indian singing competition series "was launched much before American Idol and is exactly the same as American Idol." He added that when he brought this to the attention of Idol producer Fremantle, "they offered me five six, formats to run free on (Hindi) television rather than have a conflict about it." When the audience started to volubly murmur, Chandra asserted, "No it's true." Other big winners of the night included the British series Accused, which picked up Emmys for drama series and actor Christopher Eccelston. The Swedish movie series Millennium -- the original Girl With the Dragon Tattoo films starring Noomi Rapace -- earned the Emmy for TV movie and miniseries. Rapace and Michael Nyqvist were nominated for acting awards but did not win. Accepting the award for the films, Millennium producer Soren Staermose said, in somewhat broken English: "We will jump off the roof with this beautiful (statue) and hit every man who still hates women." A complete list of winners can be found on the next page. Related Topics Emmy Awards Lady Gaga Nigel Lythgoe Simon Cowell American Idol Simon Fuller So You Think You Can Dance 1 2 next last

NBC Extends 'Up All Night'

Colleen Hayes/NBC"Up All Night" NBC is staying Up All Night a bit longer. The network has ordered two additional episodes of the marriage comedy starring Will Arnett and Christina Applegate from Emily Spivey. VIDEO: 'Up All Night' Sneak Peek: Reagan Stages a Home Invasion Up All Night, along with the network's Whitney, received early season back-nine orders in October; Monday's two-episode pickup brings the comedy's order to 24 episodes. The Wednesday night comedy, which last week drew 4.8 million viewers and a 1.9 in the advertiser-coveted adults 18-49 demo, in an effort to protect the series from ratings erosion, will shift to Thursday beginning Jan. 12, where it will air after The Office. Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com; Twitter: @Snoodit Up All Night

Eva Monley dies at 88

Eva Monley, a location scout, assistant director, production manager and, later, producer who brought her expertise on Africa to many films and worked with the likes of John Huston, John Ford, Otto Preminger, David Lean and Steven Spielberg, died at her home in Nanyuki, Kenya, on Nov. 12. She was 88. The Berlin-born Monley escaped from Nazi Germany with her mother, landing at a farm in Kenya; over time she developed a detailed knowledge of the country and became fluent in Swahili. While working as a secretary in Nairobi, she picked up her first film job, as an assistant and script supervisor on 1950's "King Solomon's Mines," shot in Africa in the Belgian Congo, Kenya and Tanzania. After following that assignment with similar work on Huston's "The African Queen," she was soon frequently employed by American and British film producers shooting in Africa, including Hemingway adaptation "The Snows of Kiliminjaro"; "White Witch Doctor," with Robert Mitchum and Susan Hayward; and John Ford's "Mogambo." Monley also worked on films lensed outside Africa, such as 1955 Lana Turner-Richard Burton starrer "The Rains of Ranchipur" and George Cukor's 1956 "Bhowani Junction," both lensed in India, and on 1957 Hemingway adaptation "A Farewell to Arms," shot in Italy. She began a five-film association with director Preminger on 1960's "Exodus," on which she was production manager. (She also worked as production manger on the director's "The Cardinal," "In Harm's Way," "Bunny Lake Is Missing" and "Hurry Sundown.") Monley spent two years working as a location manager on Lean's epic "Lawrence of Arabia." Later in her career Monley was associate producer on a number of films, starting with "The Pack" in 1977 and continuing with Gil Cates' "The Promise," John Irvin's "Champions" in 1984, franchise starter "Highlander" and Bruce Beresford's 1990 "Mr. Johnson," shot in Nigeria. In 1993 she brought to the screen "A Far Off Place," based on the book by South African writer Laurens van der Post, a close friend. Reese Witherspoon in the Monley-produced film. Among her other credits are Don Siegel's "Black Windmill," Sydney Pollack's "Out of Africa," Huston's "The Man Who Would Be King," Ken Russell's "Billion Dollar Brain" and Spielberg's "Empire of the Sun." Monley's papers were donated to the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, and she received a lifetime achievement award from the British Film Institute. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com

REVIEW: Broken Beds! Bloody Placenta! Breaking Dawn - Part 1 Goes to Crazytown - Almost

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part I is such a departure from the previous three Twilight pictures that you could almost consider it a rogue offshoot. Director Bill Condon steers the franchise away from visions of wan, suffering teens and fake-fur werewolf tussles and brings it closer to — if not necessarily close to — something resembling human adult sexual obsession and its attendant responsibilities and anxieties. It’s like Jules and Jim for the Tiger Beat set. In fact, even Twilight naifs, those who haven’t read Stephenie Meyer’s blockbuster vampire-romance novels or seen any of the other pictures in the series, can probably step into Breaking Dawn — Part I and get at least a small charge out of it. It’s the most imaginative picture in the franchise, and I say that as a fan of the first picture, Catherine Hardwicke’s Twilight, an irony-free adolescent romance that took the idea of teenage erotic fantasy seriously. (I loved the entrance Hardwicke gave Robert Pattinson’s vampire heartthrob Edward Cullen: A pale effigy with brooding eyes and a blond quiff, he strode in the school cafeteria looking like a cross between Elvis and Simon Le Bon.) But the second installment, Chris Weitz’s New Moon, suffered from an excess of cheap, fake werewolf fur — what’s so suspenseful about being attacked by a pack of trappers’ hats from Target? And in the third, David Slade’s Eclipse, the actors looked all but ready to pack it in and go home, as if the mere thought of doing two more movies were enough to send them drifting toward to their Victorian fainting couches. But Breaking Dawn — Part I gives the series a jolt, a little like the lightning-bolt goosing Elsa Lanchester gets in Bride of Frankenstein, a film that’s lovingly referenced here. (It’s also an obvious nod to Condon’s 1998 Gods and Monsters, about the last days of James Whale, the director of the Frankenstein movies.) For those of you not up to speed on the Twilight canon, all you need to know is that Pattinson’s Edward is a vampire hiding in plain sight (with his whole family, no less) in the American northwest. He’s deeply in love with Bella (Kristen Stewart), though if he has sex with her, he’ll go crazy and turn her into a vampire, too. Did I mention that there’s also a neighborhood werewolf clan, perpetually at war with the vampires? The most significant of these wolfies is Jacob (Taylor Lautner), who’s also in love with Bella and who almost got her out of Edward’s clutches. Until Bella and Edward patched it back together and got engaged — they figured they’d work out the sex thing somehow. And that’s where Breaking Dawn — Part I picks up the thread. The movie opens with a wedding. Actually, there are two: One a dream-sequence affair, the other a really-and-truly exchanging of vows and rings. One of these weddings is a vision of white tulle and blood-red roses; the other is a storybook illustration incorporating hanging wisteria, cheerful, saucy wedding toasts (very artfully edited ones, at that), and the sight of the new bride and groom gazing into each other’s eyes, giddy with happiness and the knowledge that the whole thing is finally over. Now they can get to their secluded Brazilian honeymoon shack, where Edward literally breaks the bed. Who knew he had it in him? But the Honeymoon doesn’t last long, and here’s where the kookiness kicks in: Bella discovers that just 14 days after losing her virginity, she is with child. Or with something. And it’s growing inside her fast, like a watermelon with teeth (and, apparently, a thirst for blood). The birth scene that ensues is less Rosemary’s Baby and more Dario Argento, complete with smears of bloody placenta and Fantastic Voyage-style point-of-view shots that take us zooming through Bella’s arteries. Meanwhile, Jacob shows up to growl at Edward and hold Bella’s hand as she gazes placidly into his eyes. Exactly who’s married to whom here? There’s more, but you probably get the picture. While I, and perhaps you, don’t care for all of the Twilight pictures, I have greatly enjoyed the anticipation leading up to each one. For New Moon, especially, that lead-up was wonderful, a pop-culture moment reminiscent of the way audiences might have looked forward to a new Rudolph Valentino film in the ’20s: Moms, grandmoms, gay men, lesbians and last but not least, the preteens and young teenagers who were ostensibly the franchise’s target audience — there were lots of people gearing up for the Twilight movie adventure, and if the pictures let them down in some ways, at least they’d experienced the thrill of anticipation, some thread of connection via a big, lavish popcorn phenomenon. Breaking Dawn — Part 1 may restore the faith of part of that audience, and it may very well turn some of the faithful right the heck off. But Condon hasn’t fully taken the series to crazytown. He, cinematographer Guillermo Navarro and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg (who has written all of the Twilight adaptations) still hit all the essentials: They prolong the moment at which we finally get to see Bella’s wedding dress — our first glimpse is a sensual tracking shot along her spine, a long, slow stretch of lace-trimmed sheer netting. And Breaking Dawn — Part 1 gives us more laughs than the previous films did: Anna Kendrick, as Edward and Bella’s snotty school friend Jessica, shows up to make some wisecracks about the wedding cake, and series favorite Billy Burke returns as Bella’s protective yet perennially nonplussed dad — Condon gives him a great reaction shot when one of Edward’s brothers offers an off-color wedding toast. There’s also a scene in which various friends and family members weigh in on Bella’s baby-name choices. No snickering, please! (Snicker.) Breaking Dawn — Part I has to include the by-now obligatory wolf-and-vampire battle, and so it does. But it also features a wild, fancifully silly sequence in which the wolves talk to one another in growly, old-phonograph voices. The actors seem recharged, too: Pattinson still hasn’t been fully jolted out of his Eclipse sleepwalking stupor, but he occasionally shows signs of life — particularly in a scene where he attempts to revive his possibly dying wife — and he may yet rally for Part 2. Stewart seems more engaged too; she warms to the slow-burning melodrama Condon’s stoking here, and at certain points of the film she looks less like a lovesick teenager than a seriously exhausted and perplexed adult. Even Lautner seems less like a talking brick than usual. Breaking Dawn — Part 1 hints that the Twilight series will go out with a bang rather than slink off with a whimper. If Condon is going to send us off licking our wounds, he’s at least going to make it sexy. Follow Stephanie Zacharek on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Daniel Tosh: Comic mines Internet for material

ToshWhat do pubescent boys and teenagers find funny? While a lot of Hollywood struggles to reply to that question, Daniel Tosh appears to possess cracked the riddle. Having a mixture of gross-out humor and politically incorrect jokes interspersed with Internet exhibitionism, the standup's "Tosh." likes the perch of Comedy Central's greatest-ranked show.It's really no coincidence the ascent from the weekly skein, which bowed last year and today reaches 4 million audiences, mirrors an upswing of YouTube, social media and video blogging or vlogging. The Florida native spotlights the personas behind the viral videos of the day, for example Australia artist Pricasso and the penis-etched masterpieces.Meanwhile, the standup's special, "Daniel Tosh: Happy Ideas," hard his presence on Comedy Central, drawing 3.21 million for that network. The comic also keeps up a difficult live-act pace between L.A. standup and touring. Last year's "Tosh Tour Twenty Ten" offered a lot more than 200,000 tickets and made nearly $7 million. He adopted that track of the 2010 hot ticket, "Tosh Tour on Ice.""My standup is clearly still greatly 'me' and my humor, however the tour is totally different," the press-shy comedian, who's recuperating from quadruple hernia surgery, told the Santa Barbara Independent this past year. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Bill Condon, 'Breaking Dawn' Director: There Were No 'Twilight' Reshoots

'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1' caused even more of a media circus than usual while filming. With wedding, sexy honeymoon and half-breed baby for Bella Swan and Edward Cullen, the two-part finale to the 'Twilight' series is what fans have been anxiously awaiting for years. But what about those pesky rumors that the first couple of human-vampire angst got a little too R-rated while consummating their on-screen marriage for PG-13 audiences? It was reported that there were reshoots of certain honeymoon scenes (with the paparazzi shots to back it up), with the couple getting romantic for the cameras in the Caribbean several days after the film had reportedly wrapped. But when Moviefone caught up with 'Breaking Dawn' director Bill Condon at the 'Twilight' premiere in Los Angeles on Monday night, he was singing another tune entirely. Apparently, those weren't reshoots at all. "We didn't reshoot it!" he said when questioned about the supposed extra scenes. "No, not at all! We never re-shot it. I just cut a few frames. [...] No reshoots!" Asked about his comments that Kristen Stewart was "very into" the 'Breaking Dawn' sex scenes, Condon was similarly emphatic. "That was Rob -- that's wasn't me. He's allowed to be that rude about her," he said before laughing. "It was not me ... OK, I take it back!" 'Breaking Dawn Part 1' is out in theaters on Friday. You can find out more about Condon and 'Breaking Dawn' by reading Moviefone's recent interview with the director here. [Photo: Getty] 'Breaking Dawn Part 1' Premiere Photos See All Moviefone Galleries » Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

NBC Orders Advanced Pilot Beautiful People

NBC Logo design NBC on Monday purchased the advanced pilot Beautiful People, referred to like a "let's say?Inch drama set ten minutes in to the future. From executive producer Michael McDonald, the show concentrates on groups of mechanical people who exist for everyone a persons population - except, the robots start to awaken. McDonald, who made an appearance on Mad TV, would be a talking to producer on Scrubs and directed instances of Cougar Town. ABC Galleries and Universal TV are creating what's recommended as "low-tech, high drama."

A journey from ensign to agent

Joel A four-year stint in the Navy helped lay the foundation for Brandt Joel's future career as a tenpercenter."It was great training for me to go from being in college with little or no responsibility to a situation that taught me how to be responsible for a lot of people very quickly," says Joel, who now reps actors and directors at WME. "It definitely prepared me for working in this business."Joel joined the service from Duke U., which he attended with tuition aid from the military under the condition that he serve four years after graduating. During his 1987-91 hitch, his ship was deployed to the Persian Gulf. They conducted plenty of battle exercises but ultimately did not see combat. (Years later he thanked Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf for that decision when he ran into him at the premiere of "The Lost World: Jurassic Park.")After being discharged in San Diego, Joel headed to Hollywood where he quickly landed in the UTA mailroom."I think I got hired because they hadn't met with many people who were coming out of the military," Joel says.Today he's a strong advocate of clients going overseas to entertain the troops. He knows what an impact it can have on service members stationed far from home."It can be very lonely over there," he says. Contact Cynthia Littleton at cynthia.littleton@variety.com

Canon booms with professional camera line

Camera maker Canon is making a hostile transfer to Hollywood, unveiling its first-ever type of professional cameras and contacts for movie and tv shooting. Beneath a picture stating the slogan "Leave no story untold" and before an asked audience of camera and tech pros from all over the world, Canon worldwide topper Fujio Mitarai required to the level in the Vital Theater on Thursday to announce the business's Cinema Eos 550d line and paired contacts. Mitarai guaranteed the machine is going to be compact and light-weight but in a position to capture in an exceedingly number of light levels, enabling natural-light shooting in conditions from full sunlight to moonless evening. The very first offering within the line, the Cinema Eos 550d C300, is going to be offered at the finish of The month of january. List cost is $20,000 with no lens. First available camera will include an EF lens mount, enabling it to make use of the 70 contacts in Canon's Eos 550d line. A version by having an industry standard PF mount is going to be obtainable in March. Tim Cruz, manager of professional marketplaces for Canon, told Variety the camera's lightweight and versatility should allow it to be well suited for TV production, and often will likely attract feature filmmakers too. Mitarai stated, "I stand here to request you to definitely welcome us in to the community within Hollywood," then revealed the Cinema Eos 550d camera, which appears like a mid-sized camcorder. After showing several extended excerpts from photos shot using the Cinema Eos 550d system, each selected to exhibit the abilities from the camera, Martin Scorsese required the podium. The filmmaker ended by saying, "In my opinion these new tools from Canon allow a significantly closer relationship between filmmakers and also the subjects they're filming than in the past, and so i thanks for your. Mr. Mitarai. Thanks for visiting Hollywood." One of the photos proven was a clip for Bryce Dallas Howard's approaching directorial effort "Whenever You Find Me." Mitarai also introduced the outlet from the Canon Hollywood Professional Technology and Support Center at Sunset Gower Galleries in Hollywood, with a full showroom, repair services and education on its new items. "We are creating a significant resolve for the film and tv production industry," stated Eliott Peck, senior Vice president and GM, sales for Canon's Imaging Technologies and Communications Group. "We are within this business and we are likely to remain in e-commerce.Inch The C300 camera offers 12 stops of dynamic range through all ISOs and includes a new CMOS sensor designed particularly for video. New design is supposed to cut lower around the "jello" items that affected canon's still cameras once they were utilised for professional video. A panel of d.p.'s who'd labored using the system recognized its simplicity of use, lengthy battery existence, lightweight and also the "filmic" look it shipped with little effort. The Cinema Eos 550d line also boasts full iPad integration, with all of its controls available with an iPad application. Camera has not been examined in three dimensional production but was created with side-by-side three dimensional shooting in your mind. It may do as much as 30 fps at 1080p or 60 fps at 720p. Canon's Dslr cameras have grown to be popular for shooting movies and tv despite problems taking rapid motion because of the appearance of their shutter. The footage proven in the Vital unveiling did not show such apparent "jello" items. Masaya Maeda, chief professional for image communication items procedures for Canon, stated the organization could be an energetic participant in a variety of groups and forums in Hollywood. Maeda stated it had been his idea to include video abilities towards the Canon Eos 550d cameras to begin with, but the organization was amazed at the nice and cozy response the Digital slr received within the movie business. Company also introduced it's creating a new Eos 550d digital still camera having the ability to record 4K video at 24 fps, an element clearly targeted at professional moviemaking. Contact David S. Cohen at david.cohen@variety.com

Watercooler: Is American Horror Story's Tate a Ghost?

Evan Peters, Jessica Lange and Frances Conroy For a teenager, that kid sure seems like an old soul. Maybe that's because he is! Last night, American Horror Story wrapped up its crazycakes two-part Halloween episode with a major hint regarding the mythology of the Harmons' "Murder House." Apparently, if you die on the premises, you stay on the premises. Note Ben's crazy zombie mistress, the bitchy former owners, the devil baby in the basement, and our favorite two-faced maid, Moira. Only the feast of Samhain allows these ghosts to wander off the grounds and get their errands done or do whatever the undead tend to when they take on corporeal form. So let's apply that "home is where the horror is" logic to Violet's unstable beau. Until Halloween, we'd only seen Tate inside the house, in the yard or on the front sidewalk. Once October 31 rolled around, he was off meeting Ben in the town square for coffee and taking Violet on a beach date. Coincidence? Maybe. But then, things started to really fall into place. First, he was unable to, um, do what guys like to do on late-night beach dates and blamed it on his meds. Sure. Find us a pill that combats teen hormones and AHS' usually sex-soaked atmosphere. Then the "dead Breakfast Club" (including Awkward's Ashley Rickards!) showed up to terrorize him for "pulling the trigger" during a years-ago school shooting, of which they were clearly the victims. And while he claims to be both innocent and unaware of the crime, those deeply disturbing flashbacks imply that the kid is indeed in denial about doing the deed. So, did Tate open fire on his classmates and then kill himself back at the house? Was he taken out by the cops? Or, since we now know that he's also Constance's son, was he offed by his own mother? After all, since she's hip to the house's ability to keep the dearly departed around, killing her kid within the property lines would both save him from going to jail and keep him close by forever. What do you think? Is Tate dead or just dreadful? And how are you liking American Horror Story so far? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!