Beyonce & Jay-Z Expecting Their First Child

FIRST Released: August 28, 2011 9:42 PM EDT La, Calif. -- Beyonce will probably be a mother! The celebrity glowing inside a lengthy, flowing crimson gown having a side-taken ponytail cupped her hands round her stomach as she posed about the black carpet in the 2011 MTV Video Music Honours in La on Sunday, revealing a little baby bump. Additionally to Beyonces telling pose, a repetition for that 29-year-old singer also confirmed her pregnancy to gain access to Hollywood. This is the very first child for that Run The Planet singer, who married stylish hop mogul Jay-Z in April 2008. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved.These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Global Showbiz Briefs: Rome, Poland, UK

‘The Lady’ Set As Opener At Rome Fest Luc Besson’s The Lady, the political drama starring Michelle Yeoh and inspired by the recently freed Burmese opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, has been tapped to open the Rome International Film Festival on Oct. 27. It won’t be the first stop for the film, which will make its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 12. Reports: RTL, Time Warner Look At Polish Broadcaster TVN Shares of stock in Polish TV network TVN rose 10% today amid reportsof sales talks.Europe’s biggest commercial broadcaster RTL Group is interested in ITI Group’s $800 million controlling stake in the Polish broadcaster, according to Reuters. AndTVN CEOMarkus Tellenbach has met with Time Warner reps,Warsaw’s Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper reported. Hacking Scandal Inspires Satire On UK’s Channel 4 The show, with the working title Hacks, will beset in a fictional paper where staff indulge in phone hacking, blagging and “pinging” to get a story by any means necessary. Guy Jenkin (Drop Dead Donkey) is writing the scriptbased on the scandal which has brought about the closure of the News Of The World and exits ofNews International execs and top Scotland Yard figures. ‘The Hour’ Back For Second Season On BBC The BBC confirmed today that the series, written and created by Abi Morgan,will be back for six more episodes in its second season on BBC Two. Set ina BBC newsroom in the 1950s,The Hour is produced by Kudos Film and Television.

The Transition Issue

Whether you are just starting out as an actor, thinking of leaving the business, or changing roles within the business, going through a transition can be complicated and emotionally draining. Back Stage offers tips and tricks to make transitioning easier.A Transition Toolbox Here are a few tips on how to stay sane, strong, and focused when going through a career transition.How Actors Transition Through Various Age Groups Making intelligent transitions to accommodate the fact of aging depends on many factorsfrom realistic assessments and goals to just being open to other possibilities.Tips for Transitioning Dancers Due to the physical nature of their profession, dancers usually have much shorter careers than other performing artists.Agents' Advice on Transitioning from Co-Star to Guest Star Roles When is the right time to make that transitionfrom being an actor who reads for co-star, one-scene, and bit parts to being an actor who turns down an audition unless it's for a guest-star role or better? Moving from Musical to Nonmusical Roles Performers work hard to transition between musicals and nonmusicals, when given the opportunities.How Did You Make the Transition From Actor to Director? "I've never actually considered it a transition, but rather a very natural progression. I don't usually consider myself one or the other." - Amber Sealey

Legendary East announces first project

ZwickTullHerskovitz Thomas Tull's Legendary East has set "The Great Wall" as its first project to bow through the China-based banner, with Edward Zwick at the helm and Marshall Herskovitz co-writing the project with the director.Drama is based on a story conceived by Tull and Max Brooks ("World War Z") that revolves around the legend behind the construction of the massive structure which began construction around the fifth century B.C.Legendary's Tull and Jon Jashni will produce with Charles Roven and Alex Gartner of Atlas Entertainment, as well as Zwick and Herskovitz.Move comes after Legendary East secured a $220.5 million round of funding over the weekend from Hong Kong's Paul Y. Engineering Group, in exchange for a 50% stake in the entertainment venture.In June, Tull paired up with Chinese-born Hong Kong media and finance entrepreneur Kelvin Wu to launch Legendary East. Goal is to produce one or two English-lingo pics a year that tap into Chinese culture. First films will bow in 2013.Jashni, Legendary Entertainment's chief creative officer, serves as an advisor to the Legendary East team.Producing "The Great Wall" will enable Tull to bypass Chinese government restrictions that put a 20-pic limit on foreign films that can play in the country's theaters, and enable Legendary to benefit from the growing box office in the region."The Great Wall" will be distributed in China by Legendary East's co-production partner, Huayi Brothers, while Warner Bros. will release elsewhere."Legendary East has given us the chance to do what we most love -- to create an adventure on a grand scale," said Zwick and Herskovitz in a statement.Zwick and Herskovitz also previously collaborated on "The Last Samurai" and co-produced "Traffic." Zwick most recently helmed "Love and Other Drugs," "Blood Diamond" and "Defiance.""Their ability to translate a sense of history while communicating emotion and wonder has been proven repeatedly," Jashni said. " 'The Great Wall' exemplifies the type of globally appealing, commercial movie we intend to have Legendary East become known for."Roven is currently producing "The Dark Knight Rises" and "Man of Steel," both Legendary co-productions with Warner Bros. Roven and Gartner also produced the WB comedy "Get Smart." Contact Marc Graser at marc.graser@variety.com

'Hunger Games': Jennifer Lawrence Sings About The Soundtrack

FROM MTV MOVIES: We have seen clips from the motion picture realm of Panem Jennifer Lawrence as bloodstream-spattered, arrow-carrying Katniss crouching within the forest, Josh Hutcherson as her fight-worn fellow combatant Peeta laying inside a clearing. What we should have not yet examined from "Hunger Games" and why would we, without any trailer yet launched and also the film not striking theaters until March 2012? is anything related to the score, an exciting-star collaboration between T-Bone Burnett and Danny Elfman. But that musical omission is going to be altering soon, as Burnett not just told MTV News that filmmakers is going to be delivering "Hunger Games" tuneage soon, but that certain track will feature Lawrence herself. "Yeah, we did," Burnett stated whenever we requested if Lawrence had recorded anything within the studio. "Also it was beautiful. She did great. She's singing great. Killer actor too." Browse the full story at MTV Movies and look for Hollywood Crush's listing of other "Hunger Games" soundtrack suggestions!

Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim Were Distance To Group Sex (along with other Facts From Patricia Bosworth's New Biography)

Jane Fonda, now 73, used to be an worldwide sex symbol after which probably the most famous -- and many hated -- celebrity activists. A brand new biography particulars the star's open marriage to her first husband, French director Roger Vadim, who also romanced Catherine Deneuve and Brigitte Bardot. It reads just like a who's who from the Swinging '60s: Fonda partied with Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson and participated in threesomes to impress her husband. Biographer Patricia Bosworth, who's also profiled Marlon Brando and Mongomery Clift, shares a extended excerpt of her new book within the September problem of Vanity Fair. The section concentrates on Fonda's amount of time in France and the building of the cult film 'Barbarella' (see above) and particulars her sexual and political awakening and need to create a name apart from "Henry Fonda's daughter." Take a look at some highlights: Gossips about Jane's sexuality: For a long time there have been gossips that Jane was gay or bisexual. "Look," she stated once, "can't we leave something towards the imagination?" She added, "Frankly, I have most likely done everything. However I won't ever talk about my sex existence unless of course I talk about it inside a novel." Her open marriage to Vadim: She hated Vadim's concept of "an arrangement," but she stored quiet, rationalizing that they needed to endure it in return for the emotional security Vadim gave her: "I did not desire to be alone," she authored. "I still felt it was my relationship with him, however painful, that validated me." So she did not object when he introduced home an attractive redhead, a higher-class call girl from Madame Claude's, probably the most elegant brothel in Paris. Jane authored, "I ... put myself in to the threesome using the skill and enthusiasm from the actress that i'm.Inch The threesomes would continue throughout the majority of their marriage. The wild occasions at Vadim's rental property in Rome: Buck Henry, who had been in Rome writing the script for 'Catch-22' for Mike Nichols, would visit the rental property within the nights. "I'd learned about orgies, acidity, lots of drugs. I had been never asked. I thought about being.Inch What he takes note of best is Jane. "I'd use and merely feast my eyes on Jane. She was unbelievable. So beautiful. And not possible. Individuals lengthy, lengthy legs, a lot blonde hair. Sexy. Jane was created a superstar." The wild occasions in Hollywood: Jane would sunbathe alongside a pool nude on among the decks, not whatsoever self-conscious when buddies for example Brando and Christian Marquand came by. Dennis Hopper frequently required photographs. Nathalie [Vadim's daughter with Danish model Annette Stroyberg] stated, "Sometimes while Jane was laying there, Vadim would kneel lower and caress her beautiful body with oil." Once, a lady guest am overcome through the sensual atmos­phere that they knelt lower and kissed Jane complete the mouth. While several scandalous particulars were formerly revealed in autobiographies by Vadim and Fonda herself, Bosworth is just one of Hollywood's respected biographers and seems to supply more context to those facts. Fonda's devote film history is certainly an underlying cause for discussion: Will she be best appreciated because the sex symbol from the '60s among Hollywood's leading stars along with a political lightning fishing rod from the '70s or even the workout enthusiast from the 1980s? Leading using the sexy French phase of Fonda's existence is certainly a terrific way to hook visitors who might can just learn her as J.Lo's frightening mother-in-law in 'Monster-in-Law.' 'Jane Fonda: The Non-public Existence of the Public Woman' is going to be launched on August. 30, just days after Fonda debuts her very own latest book, 'Prime Time,' about adopting existence to your 70s. (Fonda will turn 74 in December.) [via Vanity Fair] Photo: Everett Collection.

Primary Stages Selects Those who win of Second Annual ESPA Drills

The Brand New You are able to City theater company Primary Stages is teaching students to create having a edge against your competitors. Now in the second year, ESPA Drills, a course from the theater's Einhorn School of Carrying out Arts, gives four playwrightschosen from among all of the students who submit plays for considerationa fully staged reading through of the work."It had been amazing the number of from the authors were submiting their work on the complete last second, saying, 'I've been up for 3 days straight finishing this for you personally. And here you go and that i hope it is good,A " stated Tessa LaNeve, Primary Stages' literary manager and director of ESPA. "And guess what happens? These were.InchESPA has departments in acting, writing, and pointing. ESPA Drills is really a developmental enter in which authors workshop their plays in the theater with the aid of the ESPA staff. This past year, 60 plays were posted, using the four winning works showing up at Off-Broadway's 59E59 Theaters. "It comes down to hearing the play, not always seeing the play," LaNeve stated. Micheline Auger, whose play "The Feminism of the Soft Merlot (or The way the Donkey Got Smacked)" was selected with this year's reading through series, stated she was honored to sign up inside a enter in which she will share her work. "It is something that the author is definitely wishing for," she stated. "A author hopes to get involved with a location where they support your projects also it reaches be before new people." Another those who win are "23.5" by Cary Crim, "Verano Place" by Katie Atcheson, and "The Next Time on Spring Valley" by Louise Schwarz. Based on LaNeve, this program was began this past year because all students wanted to possess fully staged blood pressure measurements of the plays but there wasn't lots of time to use each student individually. Consequently, a contest-style program was created.InchMaking a brand new program that will enable everybody to achieve that appeared impossible," LaNeve stated. "And So I needed to get this to a contest. And when you produce a competition, you kind of desire to make the big event large." LaNeve stated that they personally handles all of the program's marketing, in addition to casting stars and employing company directors for every staged reading through. "Why is the program really special would be that the bigger company, Primary Stages, in general works relentlessly to advocate of these authors, before, throughout, and after," she stated. "So at this time I am along the way of reaching to industry people, to agents, to future collaborators, to anybody which i think would take advantage of hearing these voices."Auger, that has been with Primary Stages since 2009, stated the theater company gave her the chance to operate inside a professional atmosphere."I have taken classes at other areas in which you seem like case a spare time activity for many people, and that is reflected within the work," she stated. "Here it's greatly an expert program the ones work on that much cla. When you are aware that bar is placed high and you are dealing with other professionals within the area, it simply enables you to operate in a greater level."In a number of models, the plays posted for ESPA Drills are removed until only four remain. Within the first round, a panel of idol judges reads 10 to 12 pages of every work, and 16 plays are selected. These semifinalists are then read with a new number of visitors, which narrows your competition lower to eight. After that, another number of visitors selects the 4 those who win. "I'd a sense something good would happen this summer time, and i believe it was my something good," stated Auger. "I seem like each play features its own time, and that i just seem like it's about time with this play." The reading through of Auger's "The Feminism of the Soft Merlot (or The way the Donkey Got Smacked)" will occur Thursday, August. 18, at noon. Carey Crim's "23.5" follows that 24 hour at 3 p.m. Katie Atcheson's "Verano Place" is going to be continue reading Thursday, August. 25, at noon, and Louise Schwarz's "The Next Time on Spring Valley" is going to be read on that day at 3 p.m. Visit world wide web.primarystages.org for additional particulars and ticketing information.

HBO's Game of Thrones Finds Its Gilly, Hallyne

Roy Dotrice, Hannah Murray Roy Dotrice and Hannah Murray have joined the cast of HBO's Game of Thrones, TVGuide.com has confirmed. Dotrice, who lends his voice to the audiobook adaptation of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, on which Game of Thrones is based, will play Pyromancer Hallyne, chief of the Guild of Alchemists. Murray, who appeared on the British version of Skins, will play Gilly, one of the many women living with Old Craster who wants to escape his oppression. Liam Cunningham signs on for Game of Thrones Dotrice and Murray are the latest to join an ever-growing guest cast for Season 2. Two weeks ago, Liam Cunningham signed on to play Davos Seaworth, along with Stephen Dillane as Stannis and Carice van Houten as Melisandre. Earlier, Gwendoline Christie was cast as Brienne, while The Tudors actress Natalie Dormer will play Margaery Tyrell.

David Bohrman Named Current TV President

Following last month's executive shakeup at Current TV, in which CEO Mark Rosenthal abruptly resigned and was replaced by co-founder Joel Hyatt, the fledgling cable network has hired veteran news executive David Bohrman as president. Bohrman, who starts immediately, will be based in New York and San Francisco and will oversee programming, production, broadcast operations, digital and technology, working closely with co-founders Hyatt and Al Gore as well as Current's Chief News Officer Keith Olbermann, the network says. Currents mission has always been to shine a light on important issues, to spark debate and to speak truth to power," Gore said. David Bohrman passionately shares our vision. He has innovation in his DNA, and he has the unique qualifications and relationships to take Current to a whole new level in programming and production. For the past decade, Bohrman was CNNs SVP of programming and Washington, DC bureau chief, and in May of this year, he became CNNs SVP and Chief Innovation Officer Worldwide. Before that, he executive produced NBC News special news events from 1993-1997 and was part of MSNBCs launch team, where he created The Site and Imus in the Morning. For 13 years before that, Bohrman was at ABC News where he was a senior producer and part of the launch team of Nightline and executive producer World News Now.

Stylish spaces tell their own stories

For 'Mad Men,' Dan Bishop created a chaotic new office, including 'pretty horrible' digs for John Slattery's Roger Sterling.TV series art direction isn't just set building or location finding. The designer is a visual stylist charged with communicating the show's thrust and themes to the viewers -- right between the eyes.Says "Mad Men's" Dan Bishop, "We production designers are all working to support the drama one way or another, whether to convey character or to convey the center of time and place." And in fact all of this year's Emmy nominees for art direction/single camera put their choices in the context of a creative team's shared vision. Richard Berg of "Modern Family" harks back to his architecture background. "Le Corbusier's credo was 'A house is a machine for living.' And for me, a set is a machine for filming."The sitcom's machinery involves action bouncing among three family environments seen in diffused background. "Not knowing where you are in the first five seconds might spoil the first joke," Berg maintains, so each home boasts a predominant identifying color: green; blue; off-white with flashes of red. "Subconsciously, audiences know where they've landed."Visual shorthand signals the landings in "True Blood" as well, according to production designer Suzuki Ingerslev. "Every location is a character. You need to transport your audience instantly into this world," a bayou gumbo of contempo and historical detail mixed with magic."My spaces look really realistic. You can relate to them, yet something fantastical happens there. It grounds the show. You say 'I've been in places just like these, so wow, maybe vampires and shape-shifters really could live among us.' "But a milieu isn't easy to make tangible. She was thrilled to stumble upon an authentic, unique octagonal brick mansion in Natchez as the abode of the formidable vampire king of Mississippi (Denis O'Hare)."I went, oh my God, it shows grandeur, power and influence. There's something foreboding about it. And it's never been filmed before!"Francois Seguin hoped to give viewers of "The Borgias" a taste of the Italian Renaissance they'd never had before: "something more theatrical, even operatic. It's about greed, power, money and sex -- very contemporary in that, because we never change."His decor subtly hints at character. The Borgias "are a family of hide and seek, so we put in many pillars, a lot of vertical structures so they could appear and disappear and cast long shadows."In establishing the Atlantic City boardwalk as "a place like nowhere else, the flagship" of "Boardwalk Empire," production designer Bob Shaw had to follow the dictum of protagonist Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi): "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.""The original Ritz Hotel where Nucky lived is the only remaining period hotels, and it's a plain brick box. Authentic, but it certainly didn't capture the feeling. So we modeled our Ritz on other famous hotels that have mermaids swimming around them, and a frieze of seashells on top," Shaw says.Four seasons of "Mad Men" have segued from the complacent '50s into the tumultuous '60s, but in doing so creator Matt Weiner demanded "both accuracy and restraint," says Bishop."Everything has to be right, but he doesn't want us to use the iconographic period stuff. We have yet to introduce a fluorescent color!"Paralleling the generational shift, the principals have split away from venerable agency Sterling Cooper. Their new digs are "a smaller, more chaotic space -- more of a rabbit warren with people working on top of each other and a breakdown of some of the old social conventions." What comes through is "a certain amount of disintegration of the familiarity of the '50s."Settings are assigned narratives, not just walls and bric-a-brac. The office of Roger Sterling (John Slattery) "is all black and white, pretty horrible in its way. We decided his new wife had an influence on it, and maybe he doesn't really like it very much."Bishop betrays no upcoming spoilers. But if the troubles in that marriage intensify, remember: The sets signaled it first.Click here for the full list of Creative Arts nominees.ROAD TO THE EMMYS: CREATIVE ARTS NOMINEESStylish spaces tell their own stories | Lensers have little in common | Prosthetics pros do a lot with a little | Syfy judge raises 'Dead' Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Sherlock Hits Big Screen!

Moffat & Gatiss will talk up the showWhile we've been all excited about the big American-type fillums and their creators either coming over or appearing via satellite at BIG SCREEN, we're also proud to be offering some decidedly British action. And what could make us more proud than to announce that Sherlock co-creators Steven "I also run Doctor Who" Moffat and Mark "I also play Mycroft Holmes" Gatiss will be hosting an exclusive panel as part of the BIG SCREEN TV Showcase on Friday August 12. Their superb updating of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective stories was a huge success last year and the pair is in the middle of filming the second series right now with newly-minted Hobbit co-stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman back as the titular 'tec and put-upon sidekick Watson. They'll be talking about the work that goes into making Sherlock live and breathe in the modern era and, we're guessing, Steven might be tempted into letting slip a few fun Who details while he's about it. No promises, though - we all know he likes to keep his secrets (fetch the electrodes!)You're not going to want to miss this one, so make sure you snatch up a Friday Diamond Ticket from the BIG SCREEN official site, which will ensure you a seat.

Jum Michele Discloses Publish-'Glee' Plans

Jum Michele might be graduation on Glee, but she's not slowing down lower her acting career. "I intend on playing every role on Broadway. . . . I wish to do movies, make music. Glee is simply the beginning," she informs the September problem of Harper's Bazaar. PHOTOS: Glee Takes New york city: Behind the curtain "I don't stop. It's my character," she states. "Individuals have to inform me to decelerate." COVER STORY: 'Glee's' Greatest, Craziest, Most Costly Show Ever The main one factor that may have slowed down her lower: her nose. "The number of managers explained, 'Get a nose job. You are not pretty enough'? However I demonstrated them wrong," she states. She also talked about her looks within the THR actress roundtable watch here. Still, that doesn't stop her from joking concerning the Glee movie: "In 3-D, my nose will look fabulous." Michele downplays reviews that they's a diva like her character, Rachel Berry. "Individuals have to consider this really is brand new for all of us. We are all reasonably youthful, aside from Cory [Monteith], who's old," she states. Monteith is 29 Michele is 24. "I have learned some training," she continues. "But people are likely to say what they need to express. I understand who I'm, and I am not perfect." PHOTOS: Behind the curtain of 'Glee' She's learning so much from frequent Glee guest star Gwyneth Paltrow. "I'm enthusiastic about Gwyneth Paltrow...I really like speaking with Gwyneth. She just gives helpful advice. She stated, 'Don't ever read anything in regards to you,'" states Michele. She states she leads a basic existence in West Hollywood together with her boyfriend, Theo Stockman. "I've got a small existence," she states, adding they usually just "prepare diner, have wine." She also stays considerable time together with her Glee castmates. "Among the finest to be with them all day long," she states. Related Subjects Glee

Drafthouse Films picks up "The FP"

Drafthouse Films has acquired U.S. rights to SXSW futuristic comedy "The FP," with plans to release the film during first-quarter 2012. "The FP," helmed by brothers Jason and Brandon Trost, centers on two rival gangs fighting for control of Frazier Park (The FP) -- a deadly arena in competitive dance-fight vidgame, "Beat-Beat Revelation." Drafthouse, the distribution arm of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, acquired "FP" after its screening at Montreal's Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Pic is exec produced by Jason Blum and Steven Schneider ("Paranormal Activity," "Insidious"). "I fell in love with 'The FP' from its world premiere in Austin," said Drafthouse Films founder-CEO Tim League. "The Trost brothers have an amazing, fresh creative vision and I want to be a part of the team that helps evangelize their strange new gospel." In other Drafthouse news, Evan Husney has been tapped to serve as director, overseeing acquisitions, distribution, promotion and marketing for Drafthouse. Husney most recently headed branding and acquisitions for Severin Films' subsidiary label, Intervision Picture Corp. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com