New viral video for Prometheus

Prometheus has launched a canny bit of viral marketing, by which Guy Pearce's character Peter Weyland provides a TED talk (a non-profit organisation devoted towards the discussing of ideas) on artificial intelligence.The recording shows Weyland addressing a packed auditorium around 2023 (a couple of years prior to the occasions portrayed in Prometheus are positioned), and providing them with a rundown around the story of Prometheus, the guy who tried to steal fire in the Gods.From his assertion the Gods subsequently "overreated" towards the rather high conclusion that "we're the Gods now", the theme of overreaching ambition can there be for those to determine, spelling difficulties for the crew from the Prometheus within the following years.Have a look in the new video, below... Other tips to notice are Weyland's assertion that cyborgs will quickly be indistinguishable from humans (Michael Fassbender's character is really a cyborg) and the promise to alter the planet. We still have no idea what his Prometheus crew are searching for, but it is clearly something which will have a big effect on civilisation.Pearce is both charming and menacing throughout this new teaser, and hopefully we'll learn more in the slippery businessmen within the coming days. Meanwhile you should check out the Weyland Industries website, another area of the film's viral campaign.Prometheus opens within the United kingdom on 1 June 2012.

Movieline Livetweets the 2012 Academy awards (Plus: Complete Individuals who win List!)

Hollywood's finest (and possibly most anticlimactic) evening is here now, that could only mean one factor: Movieline's third annual Oscar Livetweet Extravaganza! Join this author, West Coast editor Jen Yamato, Chief Critic Stephanie Zacharek plus an estimable panel of Movieline affiliate marketers and site visitors after we parse the Academy awards to in a inch from the glamorous lives. The enjoyment begins round the red-colored-colored carpet at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, while using Oscarcast proper beginning at 8:30 p.m ET/5:30 p.m. PT. And regardless, keep current using the 2010 Oscar class with this particular comprehensive report on individuals who win Up-to-date happening following a jump. [ADVISORY 8 p.m. ET: The CoverItLive/Twitter interface is buggy for now we're concentrating on a solution! Interesting persistence!] BEST PICTURE: TBA BEST DIRECTOR: TBA BEST ACTRESS: TBA BEST ACTOR: TBA BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: TBA BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: TBA BEST ORIGINAL Script: TBA BEST Modified Script: TBA BEST ANIMATED FILM FEATURE: TBA BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FEATURE: TBA BEST ART DIRECTION: TBA BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: TBA BEST COSTUME DESIGN: TBA BEST FILM EDITING: TBA BEST MAKEUP: TBA BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: TBA BEST ORIGINAL SONG: TBA BEST Appear EDITING: TBA BEST Appear MIXING: TBA BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: TBA BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: TBA BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT: TBA BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT: TBA BEST ANIMATED SHORT: TBA Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Once Upon a Time Scoop: Sebastian Stan's Mad Role Revealed

Rachel Dratch, Danny Comden Rachel Dratch is returning to NBC. The Saturday Night Live alum, who has also occasionally appeared on 30 Rock, has joined the cast of the Kari Lizer project, now titled Lady Friends, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. Pilot Season: Get the scoop! In the comedy, two female friends - Nicole (Andrea Anders), who seemingly has the perfect life and, Jen, who can't seem to get it together - live two very different lives, but can't live without each other. Dratch will play Lisa, the newest member of Nicole and Jen's group of lady friends. She's just a little bit worse off in every way than Jen, which is why Jen keeps her around. Danny Comden (Urban Legend, I'm With Her) has also joined the cast as Jen's ex-husband, a rock star-type chef. The New Adventures of Old Christine's Lizer will write and executive-produce.

Mark Millar confirms Kick-Ass 2 will shoot this summer

Kick-Ass 2 has been in the pipeline ever since the first film revealed its cliffhanger ending, but only now have production details been officially confirmed, with Mark Millar telling The Daily Record that filming will begin in the summer.Millar is the man who penned the Kick-Ass comic books, and so is well placed to give an update on the film. "We shoot Kick-Ass 2 and American Jesus this summer," he told the newspaper, before going on to elaborate on the latter project."It's the reverse of The Omen," he explains, "which is about a kid who finds out he is the anti-Christ. This is a kid who finds out he is Jesus Christ."We're still waiting for confirmation as to whether Matthew Vaughn will return to the director's chair for Kick-Ass 2, although the director himself has admitted it's unlikely. However, that doesn't preclude his involvement on script or production duties, so we'll keep our fingers crossed.No word on cast or crew for American Jesus either at this point, but if filming is set to begin in a few months time, presumably some announcements will be on their way sooner rather than later...

Mailings focus divide over union merger

With 10 days to go to before ballots head out, high-profile thesps have started lining on both sides in the recommended merger involving the Screen Stars Guild as well as the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists. On Thursday, Mike Jaeger ("MotherhoodInch), Seamus Colorado ("Castle") and "Modern Family" cast people Erection dysfunction O'Neill, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Julie Bowen and Eric Stonestreet came out in videos round the professional-merger internet.sagaftra.com site. Round the election-no side, former SAG leader Alan Rosenberg and Scott Wilson -- champion of SAG's Take advantage of Morgan award for service -- grew to become part of about 30 antimerger protesters before SAG and AFTRA headquarters. Meanwhile, lawyers for merger rivals, headed by David Casselman of Wasserman, Comden, Casselman & Esensten, are actually tussling with SAG lawyers inside the materials being incorporated inside the ballot materials. Casselman revealed Thursday evening he and SAG lawyers had showed up in a tentative agreement round the Opposition Report which will be shipped to individuals. That document -- limited to 1,000 words -- wasn't needed incorporated within the ballot materials nevertheless the SAG and AFTRA boards OK'd its inclusion lately. Professional-merger forces have contended that SAG and AFTRA might have more clout just like a combined union -- a contention that been disputed on numerous occasions by Rosenberg, who offered two terms as SAG prexy from 2005 to 2009. He is constantly insist that AFTRA's leaders are actually too taking companies, that your merger will put people leaders in the dominant position. "This merger continues to be done to make sure that nobody will endure the businesses,Inch Rosenberg mentioned. "It's a mislead condition that we'll become more effective by merging with AFTRA. The identical leaders pushing this are the same ones who developed a deal a year ago where we gave away first-class travel combined without any advances on new-media provisions." The merger proposal is going to be shipped to 120,000 SAG people and 70,000 AFTRA people, who include stars, tv producers, DJs, entertainers and ballroom ballroom dancers. To feed, the referendum takes a 60% approval margin from both orgs among votes cast. SAG and AFTRA will mail out ballots on Feb. 27, getting a tabulation date of March 30. Rivals may also be objecting to having less a comprehensive analysis of mixing the SAG and AFTRA pension and health plans also to the claims with the unions inside their feasibility study. The unions' overview of the feasibility study noted that 100s of multi-employer pensions have merged within the last twenty-five years, and there is no legal obstacle to merging the SAG and AFTRA pension and health plans. Furthermore, it mentioned multi-employer plan mergers don't pose any elevated possibility of insufficient benefits. Cassleman couldn't agree. "The crux of but SAG is representing that merger can result in no reduction in pension or health improvements,In . he mentioned. "However only the merger in the unions is available now. Once the unions are incorporated, SAG people might have no further voice or opportunity to oppose a later merger in the pension or health plans, no matter the highly probable negative effect that plan mergers might have by themselves benefits." Casselman also asserted the merger proposal can also be promoted as if it'll solve the problem of split actor earnings beneath the separate SAG and AFTRA P&H plans. Merger backers contend that mixing SAG and AFTRA makes it better to mix the plans just like a foundation fixing the problem that artists face to make contributions for the separate plans then not meeting the earnings qualifications. "Nevertheless the undisclosed truth is the merger proposal does not even offer an approach to that historic problem," Casselman mentioned. "The merger plan will codify the split earnings dilemma just like things stand today." SAG First V . p . Ned Vaughn, a pacesetter in the Unite for Strength faction that has centered guild politics lately, responded by stating that merger rivals do not have the backing of individuals. "The identical crowd keeps utilizing the same not successful tactic, plus it seems as if they are getting desperate. After they can't have the support of individuals, they use a legal gun to accomplish whatever they can't have finished within the ballot box. four years of election returns have handled to obtain apparent that individuals want nothing associated with their divisiveness," Vaughn mentioned. More youthful crowd requested Casselman's expertise. "I'm amazed their lawyer thinks they are fully aware a little more about the security within our pension and health improvements when compared to a half-dozen in the country's top experts, who all agree that merger is a good step," Vaughn mentioned. "One factor he clearly doesn't find out about might be the disastrous effect getting separate unions has received on working-class stars. This is why the particular experts -- our people -- have handled to obtain so apparent they require SAG and AFTRA to merge." Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Start Looking: Being Human's Aidan Can't Get Bishop From His Mind

Mike Witwer and Mark Pellegrino What is more gratifying than the usual father and child reunion? Well, if Father has been Human's brutal bloodsucker Bishop (Mark Pellegrino) then, essentially anything! Bishop might have been decapitated last season by Aidan (Mike Witwer), the vampire he sired centuries ago, but dead or otherwise, on February. 20 he's back. The onetime Boston vampire capo returns to Syfy's addictive supernatural show like a hallucination to haunt the troubled Aidan. He's also observed in flashbacks, including throughout The First World War, as pictured above. Within an episode about family bonds, Bishop is very pleased to offer paternal advice as Aidan must cope with the unpredicted and uncomfortable appearance of their own edgy "boy" Henry (Kyle Schmid), who decades earlier had tricked his maker by bedding the vampire princess Suren (Dichen Lachman). We'll need to wait to discover whether father knows best. One factor we're clear on, nobody plays a devious bogeymen - Lost's Jacob and Supernatural's Lucifer spring to mind - compared to hard-working Pellegrino. It may be cruel, but hopefully Aidan can't get Bishop from his mind. Being Human airs Mondays at 9/8c on Syfy. Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!

American Pie's Chris Klein Heads to Franklin & Party

Chris Klein Chris Klein has showed up a guest perfect an instalment of Franklin & Bash's second season, Entertainment Weekly reviews.Klein, most broadly noted for taking pleasure in Oz inside the hit comedy American Cake, will portray a vintage secondary school friend of Peter Party (Mark-Paul Gosselaar). His character is known to love a captivating politician who want to finish his gubernatorial bid carrying out a family scandal.Mega Buzz: A House tragedy, a Regular folks baby-father plus an SVU reunionLaw & Order's Paul Schulze may have his campaign manager who takes trouble with Party and Breckin Meyer's Franklin.Franklin & Party may even welcome a slew of guest stars for your approaching second season including Seth Eco-friendly, Cybill Shepherd and Ron Fox.

Angela Meade Given Sills Award by Met Opera

NY (AP) Soprano Angela Meade has won the Beverly Sills Artist Award for young singers.The annual award, which carries a $50,000 prize, was announced Monday. It is given to singers from 25-40.Meade sings Elvira on Thursday in the opening of the Met's revival of Verdi's "Ernani," the role she sang for her company debut in 2008.Previous winners include Nathan Gunn (2006), mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato (2007), tenor Matthew Polenzani (2008), bass John Relyea (2009), soprano Susanna Phillips (2010) and mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard (2011).Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. NY (AP) Soprano Angela Meade has won the Beverly Sills Artist Award for young singers.The annual award, which carries a $50,000 prize, was announced Monday. It is given to singers from 25-40.Meade sings Elvira on Thursday in the opening of the Met's revival of Verdi's "Ernani," the role she sang for her company debut in 2008.Previous winners include Nathan Gunn (2006), mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato (2007), tenor Matthew Polenzani (2008), bass John Relyea (2009), soprano Susanna Phillips (2010) and mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard (2011).Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.