Lifetime moves onto 'Ice Moms'

Lifetime's success with unscripted series "Dance Moms" has spurred the femme-centric cabler to develop possible show about pint-sized figure skaters and competitive matrons entitled "Ice Moms." The skein continues to be created by Lifetime and Collins Avenue, the 2nd run by Rob Collins, professional producer from the&E's "Billy the Exterminator" and new Animal Planet show "American Stuffers." "Dance Moms" acquired continuously inside the ratings throughout its first season a year ago the show created both recognition of their quality and critique due to its material, as bloggers considered very good of shows about kids under parental pressure like "Moms" and "Young children and Tiaras." Lifetime recently greenlit series spinoff "Dance Moms: Miami" for six episodes. "Dance Moms" might be the youngest-skewing Lifetime program getting an average ages of about 37. Contact Mike Thielman at mike.thielman@variety.com

Gotham needs another mayor?

Kyra Sedgwick with Asger Leth Co-stars Mike Worthington and Elizabeth Banks Thursday night's Gotham screening of Summit's "Guy around the Ledge" converted to a crowd round the side of its chair within the Tribeca Grand Hotel. "I used to be very surprised when the movie ended, everybody entertaining for your movie within the finish," Anthony Mackie mentioned within the Cinema Society-situated after-party inside the recently opened up up restaurant ACME. "It goes back for the day's action-suspense movies you could determine and luxuriate in, then when you exit the film it's money well-spent, rather than going to the film rather than knowing what is is going on when it's over." Director Asger Leth was psyched to film his first feature in NY City, they calls "most likely probably the most enigmatic place in the world.Inch Much less he doesn't love his native Denmark. "But it's like after i am away Someone said the Danish newspaper everyday and i'm searching whatsoever the political problems they've and they're yelling at each other and thinking it's a large deal. I'm like, 'Guy, the greater compact than Brooklyn. Brooklyn doesn't really possess a mayor!'"

Sundance Today: Healing For Healing For Peter Jackson, Elijah Wood Plus Much More

You'll find handful of why you should attend Newark airport terminal terminal at 4AM around the Thursday morning. Among people reasons: flying towards the Sundance Film Festival, which started in serious now. The MTV Movies team is on the ground in Park City, Utah, to speak with your chosen stars and acquire the inside scoop on what's certain to become a couple of of the very popular indie projects in the coming several days. Getting here wasn't easy. Make reference to these 4AM role call at Newark. (Obviously, I used to be the only real person round the team who switched up that early for just about any 7AM flight, but leave me alone I buy nervous). We folded in at roughly 10AM mountain a while and anxiously anxiously waited yet another two several hours before we are in a position to even leave the airport terminal terminal. (We'll spare the particulars.) Bellies were empty, tempers were hot, and naps were not inside our immediate future. The bottom line is, a recipe for conflict. However when there's anything the flicks team works extremely well at, it's conflict resolution especially where barbecue from Bandits is involved. (Deputy controlling editor Eric Ditzian swears with the tri-tip steak sandwich, while controlling editor and correspondent Josh Horowitz has probably had enough barbecue chicken salad to last him eight lives.) Voracious BBQ consumption aside, we're also at Sundance to speak up numerous your chosen stars and filmmakers. Current day our first full day's interviews, as well as the selection does not dissatisfy. Up first is "Hobbit" director Healing For Healing For Peter Jackson, who's taking a break from Middle-earth get to Park City intended for his effective documentary "West of Memphis." We're also speaking with Andy Samberg, Rashida Manley, Emma Roberts and Elijah Wood, all starring together inside the dramedy "Celeste and Jesse Forever," making its grand debut at Sundance. Throw "Want Been Here" hotties Teresa Palmer and Joel Edgerton to the mix, which is pretty sure that current day choice of interviews is more than a small bit stacked. We'll make you stay released with elevated tweets, photos, blogs and news scoops than you'll be able to handle, so ensure to remain updated the next since the MTV Movies team is constantly watch (and eat) our way through Sundance.

Quentin Tarantino reveals his favourite films of 2011

Quentin Tarantino has revealed his favourite (and least favourite) films of 2011.The Quentin Tarantino Archives have got their hands on the director's rundown of the year, which yields some surprising results.His #1 movie was Woody Allen's Midnight In Paris. It's an unexpected choice, but not underserving: it was smart, sweet and pretty damn funny, with some spot-on portrayals of '20s icons by the supporting cast.Elsewhere, his list mixes the mainstream with the offbeat (The Artist and Our Idiot Brother tie in 10th place!), and there are some shocks (The Three Musketeers? Surely an ironic joke...) and he was also kind enough to supply lists of other films he enjoyed, his favourite screenplays, and his worst films of the year.Check out the lists in full below:Quentin Tarantino's official Top 11 of 20111. Midnight In Paris2. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes3. Moneyball4. The Skin I Live In5. X-Men: First Class6. Young Adult7. Attack The Block8. Red State9. Warrior10. The Artist / Our Idiot Brother (tie)11. The Three MusketeersOthers considered in no particular order50/50BeginnersHugoThe Iron LadyCarnageGreen HornetGreen LanternCaptain AmericaThe DescendantsMy Week With MarilynFast FiveThe Tree Of LifeThe Hangover Part IIMission: Impossible - Ghost ProtocolThe BeaverContagionThe SitterWar HorseNice Try AwardDriveHannaDrive AngryReal SteelBest DirectorPedro AlmodovarBennett MillerWoody AllenJason ReitmanMichel HazanaviciusBest Original ScreenplayMidnight In ParisYoung AdultRed StateAttack The BlockOur Idiot BrotherBeginnersBest Adapted ScreenplayMoneyballThe Skin I live InCarnageRise Of The Planet Of The ApesHugoX-Men: First ClassWorst FilmsSucker PunchPotiche (Trophy Wife)MiralInsidiousRampartStraw DogsParanormal Activity 3Meek's CutoffQuentin Tarantino's Django Unchained opens on 26 December 2012 (and we're expecting it to appear in plenty of our Top 10 lists...)

Pricey privileges costs move sports goal line

Individuals have typically had the opportunity to "ooh" and "aah" at large-money sports contracts and television privileges handles awesome detachment, as though the salaries compensated star point pads or costs extended to football proprietors were items of gee-whiz accounting, otherwise divorced from reality.Continuing to move forward, though, customers along with a mostly docile sports media considering individuals mind-dazzling figures will need to begin to realize the shit will start striking the fans -- as well as much more, the non-fans.For the discuss "The American Idol ShowInch or myriad award shows building toward the Academy awards, one commodity rules the television calendar in The month of january and early Feb like not one other: football. With a flurry of recent TV contracts enriching the Nfl towards the tune of roughly $5 billion yearly after they start working -- an astounding increase in excess of 60% over existing contracts -- well, somebody's going to need to spend the money for freight on all of this.Transmit systems will no more be content to see sports as loss leaders -- the type of must-have commodity they are prepared to have a financial bath onto maintain circulation. They are likely to wish to offset their investment, through either sweetened retransmission costs from satellite and cable operators or changed contracts with affiliated stations.Meanwhile, cable channels and systems -- especially ESPN, but additionally organizations like Fox and Time Warner Cable -- have folded the dice on sports because the best hedge from the worst options of the digital future. While the possibilities of people dumping cable, or "cord-cutting," has possibly been overstated, championship games and 2010 nfl playoffs represent the type of live occasions individuals will absolutely demand, and potentially pay with the nose to obtain. (Full disclosure: I am a part-time cause of Foxsports.com.)The push-comes-to-shove element relies upon the easy proven fact that TV is not a landscape of limitless assets. If systems spend out immeasureable money for something, they are likely to try setting it up back somewhere, in some way. To quote that old song, something's gotta give.So who'll have the pinch? These affiliate marketers, and probably more compact cable systems, that will get squashed later on contract discussions with system operators attempting to offset greater costs to sports-transporting channels.And, obviously, customers.The possibilities of rising cable bills has concurrently restored talk of creating pay tiers along with a la carte prices -- each of which would require fans to fork out directly for that sports they crave -- most likely more fair, around the face from it, than forcing stated super-fan's grandmother to spend out $5 per month for that privilege of having an ESPN service she does not watch.Obviously, a minimum of ESPN provides year-round service, that is a lot more than could be stated for something similar to National football league network, which still demands steep monthly costs -- a lot more than 70 per sub monthly, per SNL Kagan -- even if the league is basically dormant over fifty percent the entire year. And today college conferences and individual colleges for example Texas U. are benefiting around the pressing appetite for sports by creating their very own devoted channels, further slicing away in the cake.Theoretically, more options for customers really are a positive thing. But businesses like ESPN are only for leverage. Getting privileges towards the National football league, National basketball association or Major league baseball really produces much more of that in working with marketers, marketers and customers.Furthermore, if some type of a la carte prices does happen (or punt or kick), premium sport shows is only going to exacerbate the have/have-not divide that already is available between individuals who are able to afford arena luxury boxes along with a majority resigned to watching their local heroes on television (or even the computer or hands-held device).Highlighting this time, a readers lately authored the La Occasions lamenting the migration of basically a number of college bowl games to cable.After losing his job, he stated, "I needed to reduce several things -Body was cable television,Inch which now means he "can't even watch the Rose Bowl because of ESPN and also the almighty dollar."The leagues, colleges and systems would without doubt obvious their throats and feign sympathy when presented such cases. However the harsh the truth is reasonable change for free TV toward a global favoring individuals who are able to manage to pay to be able to watch others play. Because regardless of the prevailing picture of sports as our shared sandbox, entering the brand new digital playground comes in a cost. Contact John Lowry at john.lowry@variety.com

J.R. Martinez Gets Ready For His Gig As Tournament of Roses Parade Grand Marshal

JR Martinez Want the truth? When Dancing With the Stars champ J.R. Martinez was asked to be the grand marshal of the 123rd Tournament of Roses Parade - airing January 2 in 3D and commercial-free on HGTV (11am/10c) - he didn't say yes because it's such a big honor. The Iraq War vet told TV Guide Magazine the real reason he signed on. TV Guide Magazine: What a prestige gig! Past marshals of the parade include John Wayne, Bob Hope, Jimmy Stewart, Walt Disney and even four U.S. Presidents - Hoover, Eisenhower, Nixon and Ford. You're in great company!Martinez: Only I didn't know that when they offered me the opportunity. [Laughs] I said yes because I wanted tickets to the game! I'm a huge football fan so I was, like, 'Hell, yeah!' I get to go to the Rose Bowl, man!" That's what I was excited about. TV Guide Magazine: And now?Martinez: [Laughs] Now I get it. But I didn't really wake up until the day of the big press announcement. They drove me out to Pasadena incognito like I'm the president and covered me as I went into the building. Then they took me through the kitchen which I thought was a mean joke - I'm the Hispanic guy so I have to go through the kitchen! - and only then did I see the list of the grand marshals of the past. Suddenly I'm like, "This is a big freakin' deal!" It's very cool and a tremendous honor. TV Guide Magazine: So now that you know the score, any nerves about the big day?Martinez: Nah. I'm fine. I'm mellow. I had dinner with the president of the Rose Parade association and members of the committee and they were saying, "We don't think you really understand how crazy and stressful it's going to be!" TV Guide Magazine: Hellooo, try fighting in Iraq.Martinez: [Laughs] Hellooo, try dancing in front of 20 million people! All I gotta do on January 2 is show up and wave. Waving and smiling and talking are what I do best! But, seriously, I also hope to remind people we're still at war in Afghanistan. People are tuning it out. They're tired of hearing about it. They've moved on. But there are still thousands of service men and women who need our help and support. It's also important for me to remind America that even though the war in Iraq is going to be stamped Mission: Complete it will not be complete for the men and women who fought there and are now coming back. You're going to be seeing a lot of PTSD. You're going to be seeing more of the psychological issues, the internal scars. In that sense, the Iraq war is not over, and will never be. TV Guide Magazine: What's up with your acting career? Will you still pursue it now that All My Children is history?Martinez: I got the bug! I've really developed a love for acting so we'll see what else is out there for me. I never had an agent for AMC. Now I've signed with the William Morris Agency so we'll see if those guys can find me some roles. But the biggest thing I want to pursue is hosting. I hosted the preshow for CNN Heroes for Showbiz Tonight and really enjoyed it. I'd love to do more. But I'm fine with whatever happens. I could never have imagined all this. It's still so surreal, so hard for me to grasp. It's crazy! The biggest thing I have to remind myself is to never change. If I can just stay me through all of this incredible stuff that's happening, I will be okay. Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Will prison time deter pic pirates?

While Hollywood hopes the primary one-year prison sentence for your "X-Males Roots: Wolverine" sailing will discourage potential copycats, the precedent-setting punishment isn't likely to considerably modify fighting against content robbery, experts say. NYer Gilberto Sanchez was sentenced Monday with a year in federal prison for uploading the 20th Century Fox pic in March 2009 -- several month before its theatrical release. His sentence might be a long incarceration for online robbery of basically one film, in line with the Justice Department. "I am hoping Internet pirates will think carefully before they upload," assistant U.S. attorney Lisa E. Feldman, who done the "Wolverine" situation, told Variety. "Like Sanchez, they may think it offers them prestige nevertheless it could easily get them prison rather." Sanchez mentioned he acquired the "workprint" copy in the film -- including several incomplete effects sequences -- for $5 in the street vendor. He then posted it to Megaupload.com for just about any previous day Fox been there removed. The FBI was later capable of trace Sanchez's Ip. Studio seen the 2011 upload since the most dangerous incident of piracy so far, according to legal documents within the situation, largely because the film hit the internet before its theatrical release. That's almost uncommon, plus it brought towards the importance from the punishment. In 2003, unlicensed copies of "The Hulk," "Terminator 3: Rise in the Machines" and "Pirates in the Caribbean: The Curse in the Black Jewel" circulated inside the U.K. just before the flicks hit theaters, but not one of them leaked the moment "Wolverine." Regardless of the importance of Monday's sentencing which is possible ways to encourage idol idol judges to acquire tough on IP robbery, legal experts question simply what amount of the deterrent it'll be. The sentence could discourage some casual clients but may not dissuade individuals that tend to be towards restrictions on distribution of copyrighted material. As well as, since pic pirates frequently rebel of non-public interest rather than to earn money, many content thieves fit the 2nd description. "It'll certainly become a deterrent," mentioned Stanford U. law professor Paul Goldstein, a professional on intellectual property law. "Whether it deters the very best people remains an problem.Inch Caused by person punitive measures in piracy cases can be tough to gauge. In 1997, congress passed no Electronic Robbery Act, which allowed more criminal penalties in piracy cases and opened up in the entrance to more effective justice. Ever since then, Hollywood has become more combative within the efforts to avoid piracy. The MPAA is backing a questionable anti-piracy bill -- the Stop Online Piracy Act -- presently making its way through Congress. But rivals the legislation may have unintended effects, like censoring entire websites over small infractions. Not every the industry's anti-piracy jobs are recognized by showbizzers. Award season screners, for example, are progressively spurring complaints about complicated security coding that could make certain they're difficult to watch. Contact Rachel Abrams at Rachel.Abrams@variety.com