Octavia Spencer formally searching for Diablo Cody pic

Octavia Spencer has grew to become an associate from the cast of Diablo Cody's untitled pic for Mandate Pictures starring Russell Logo design and Julianne Hough. Variety first reported captured that Spencer reaches discussions and Mandate has handled to obtain official. Cody is making her directorial debut in the script she composed. The pic concentrates on a protected youthful lady who handles to get rid of her belief carrying out a plane crash and visits Las vegas, where she meets an unlikely companion. Spencer would play card dealer inside a casino round the strip where Brand's character works. Mason Novick will produce with Mandate Prexy Nathan Kahane will professional produce with Cody. Spencer was most recently noticed in DreamWorks' "The Help.In . She's repped by WME. Contact Justin Kroll at justin.kroll@variety.com

Stephenie Meyer's 'Host' zeroes in on male leads

With the start of the finish around the corner for "The Twilight Saga," author Stephenie Meyer is turning her focus on the casting look for "The Host," Andrew Niccol's feature adaptation of her sci-fi novel. Saoirse Ronan ("Hanna") is mounted on star as protag Melanie Stryder, whose is penetrated by an alien named Wanderer, who may also be performed by Ronan. Within the future, producers will start testing stars for that pic's two male leads. Liam Hemsworth ("The Hunger Games"), Package Harington ("Bet on Thrones"), Jai Courtney ("One Shot") and Max Irons ("Red-colored Riding Hood") will test for that role of Jared, Melanie's boyfriend. Dane DeHaan ("In Treatment"), Thomas McDonnell ("Promenade"), Augustus Prew ("The Borgias") and Ronan's "Lovely Bones" co-star Mike Abel will test for that role of Ian, a menacing youthful guy who brutalizes Wanderer before falling deeply in love with her. Chockstone Pictures principals Steve Schwartz and Paula Mae Schwartz are creating with Nick Wechsler and Meyer. Inferno's Marc Butan, Jim Seibel and Bill Manley will professional produce, while Roger Schwartz will co-produce. "The Host" has been funded through the producers and Inferno, that is handling sales. Contact Shaun Sneider at shaun.sneider@variety.com

Shame, Mess, Tailor And Tyrannosaur Lead Brit Indie Award Nominations

The Three Uk movies have acquired seven nods each with this particular years Mot British Independent Film Honours, due to occur london on December 4. These is fighting for top British Film Award, Best Director, Best Actor and greatest Supporting Actor/Actress. The nominations were introduced london today. We Must Discuss Kevin and Kill List each received six nominations, with Submarine following carefully with five.Rebecca Hall (The Awakening), Mia Wasikowska (Jane Eyre), MyAnna Buring (Kill List), Olivia Colman (Tyrannosaur) and Tilda Swinton (We Must Discuss Kevin) are competing for top Actress. Leading males competing for top Actor include Gary Oldman (Mess, Tailor), Michael Fassbender (Shame) and Brendan Gleeson (The Guard). Jury individuals with this year's 14th honours include actor David Thewlis, producer Charles Steel (The Ultimate King of Scotland) and director Josh Appignanesi (The Infidel).Game game titles that missed the cut include 360 andThe Dark Blue Sea, the rasing and lowering films in the London Film Festival. My Week With Marilyn can also be not stated. StudioCanal has become 32 nominations due to its movies, while Film4 has acquired 28. Listed below are the nominations entirely: BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM SENNA SHAME Mess TAILOR SOLDIER SPY TYRANNOSAUR We Must Discuss KEVIN BEST DIRECTOR Ben Wheatley KILL LIST Steve McQueen SHAME Tomas Alfredson Mess TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Paddy Considine TYRANNOSAUR Lynne Ramsay We Must Discuss KEVIN THE DOUGLAS HICKOX AWARD [BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR] Joe Cornish ATTACK THE BLOCK Take advantage of Fiennes CORIOLANUS John Michael McDonagh THE GUARD Richard Ayoade SUBMARINE Paddy Considine TYRANNOSAUR BEST Script John Michael McDonagh THE GUARD Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump KILL LIST Abi Morgan, Steve McQueen SHAME Richard Ayoade SUBMARINE Lynne Ramsay, Rory Kinnear We Must Discuss KEVIN BEST ACTRESS Rebecca Hall THE AWAKENING Mia Wasikowska JANE EYRE MyAnna Buring KILL LIST Olivia Colman TYRANNOSAUR Tilda Swinton We Must Discuss KEVIN BEST ACTOR Brendan Gleeson THE GUARD Neil Maskell KILL LIST Michael Fassbender SHAME Gary Oldman Mess TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Peter Mullan TYRANNOSAUR BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Felicity Manley ALBATROSS Vanessa Redgrave CORIOLANUS Carey Mulligan SHAME Sally Hawkins SUBMARINE Kathy Burke Mess TAILOR SOLDIER SPY BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Michael Smiley KILL LIST Tom Sturdy Mess TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Benedict Cumberbatch Mess TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Eddie Marsan TYRANNOSAUR Ezra Burns We Must Discuss KEVIN MOST PROMISING NEWCOMER Jessica Brown Findlay ALBATROSS John Boyega ATTACK THE BLOCK Craig Roberts SUBMARINE Yasmin Paige SUBMARINE Tom Cullen WEEKEND BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION KILL LIST TYRANNOSAUR WEEKEND WILD BILL YOU Rather BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT Chris King, Gregers Sall Editing SENNA Sean Bobbitt Cinematography SHAME Joe Master Editing SHAME Maria Djurkovic Production Design Mess TAILOR SOLDIER SPY Seamus McGarvey Cinematography We Must Discuss KEVIN BEST DOCUMENTARY HELL AND Again Existence Daily PROJECT NIM SENNA TT3D: Closer To The Benefit BEST BRITISH SHORT 0507 CHALK LOVE At First SIGHT RITE ROUGH SKIN BEST FOREIGN INDEPENDENT FILM ANIMAL KINGDOM DRIVE PINA A SEPARATION The Skin Home May Be The RAINDANCE AWARD Functions OF GODFREY BLACK POND HOLLOW Departing BAGHDAD A Thousand KISSES DEEP

Keck's Exclusives: Glee Discloses Sue's Evil Roots

Jane Lynch All I am saying is it comes down to damn time. On November 15, Glee will ultimately reveal why Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) hates musical theater. Because the kids prepare to stage West Side Story, "we desired to reveal that Sue at some point had Broadway dreams," teases professional producer Ian Brennan. A flashback shows 16-year-old Sue on stage belting the title song from Oklahoma!, a performance savaged by one brutal critic. "Her little heart was damaged," sighs Jane. "Will informs Sue, 'Poor little Susie Sylvester was told she wasn't good, and today she's reached punish the planet.A Like lots of angry people available, Sue's a aspirant." Glee cast 19-year-old Colby Minifie for negligence youthful Sue. "I believe they did a good job casting," raves Jane. "She's an excellent voice and.Inch Also approaching may be the election from the students' class leader, which coincides with Sue's congressional bid. "Individuals are voting for elections within the school, with signs pointing voters in various directions," states Ian, who promises that the outcome take "a really surprising twist." Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!

Report: Conan O'Brien to Officiate Gay Wedding on tv

Conan O'Brien Conan O'Brien gets his The very best spinner's late-evening show to NY inside a couple of days, despite the fact that he's here, O'Brien will officiate a gay wedding, TVGuide.com has confirmed. O'Brien will marry a longtime staffer and also the partner on-air throughout among next week's episodes, according to Vulture, which first reported what is the news. An origin within the show notifies TVGuide.com will still be unclear which evening the wedding will occur. Top Moments: Conan's triumphant reunion together with a enjoyable Horror Story This isn't the first time a married relationship has happened on late-evening television. In 1969, greater than 21 million audiences seen music artist Small Tim marry Miss Vicki on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show. Conan's week of broadcasts from NY's Beacon Theater - which will celebrate O'Brien's one-year anniversary around the best spinner's - begin Monday at 11/10c around the best spinner's.

Lindsay Lohan Accepts Playboy Nude Pictorial Offer

This is what things have come to for actress-singer-celebrity criminal Lindsay Lohan; at the tender age of 25, as the media watches her every move, the onetime promising Disney star has reportedly agreed to pose nude for Playboy. For less than a million! Oh, LiLo. TMZ reports that Lohan, who recently came under fire for being tardy to her first day of community service at the morgue in Los Angeles, already began shooting her Playboy spread. Maybe the gig contributed to her tardiness. Technically, she was working over the weekend… and the job didn’t require her to seek employment in Europe! How convenient! From TMZ: Sources tell us the deal has been in the works for months, and that Lindsay balked at an initial $750K offer because she wanted … ONE MILLION dollars … to show the world what her momma gave her (apologies for the DiLo reference). Apologies, indeed. Remember when Lohan was young and innocent and fresh-scrubbed, and there were two of her? And one of the two of her was British? Yes, I’m talking The Parent Trap. Let’s take a trip down memory lane and remember: This was 13 years ago. How fast they grow up. [via TMZ] Follow Movieline on Twitter.

REVIEW: Elizabeth Olsen Beguiles in Martha Marcy May Marlene

The opening scene of Sean Durkin’s debut feature Martha Marcy May Marlene suggests we’re in for a big rusty bread pan’s worth of rural miserablism, and even though we’re not, the yeasty grayness of those early moments is clearly intentional: A group of women in drab dresses and droopy T-shirts go about preparing dinner in a house whose unfinished interior looks either new and hastily erected or ancient and about to fall apart — it’s hard to tell which. A young boy stomps about in a dusty, scrubby yard; a woman sits on the porch working on a crocheted afghan. When dinner’s ready, a bunch of men sit down to eat; then they leave the table — the man who appears to be the leader murmurs something appreciative about the meal — and the women take their places. Then there’s one lone shot of a ton of dirty dishes jumbled into and around the kitchen sink — there’s no question who’s going to be scouring them clean. It’s as if Amishtown had been taken over by a nicer version of the Manson family. Or maybe they’re not so nice. But what makes Martha Marcy May Marlene so beguiling — aside from the performance given by its lead actress, Elizabeth Olsen — is that the pall of creepy groupthink that hovers over that first scene works as a perverse kind of seduction: You want to know more about this place, and about these people, even though you suspect that knowing more may not be a good idea. Even if you think your brain is soap-proof, Durkin succeeds in washing it just a little bit. The heart, soul and eyes of Martha Marcy May Marlene belong to Olsen’s Martha, a young woman who leaves this strange, crazy-cozy household very early in the movie: We see her heading into the woods with just a small pack on her shoulder, though we also hear the squeak of a screen door and a man’s voice calling after her. Wherever it is she’s running from, she ends up at the Connecticut summer home of her sister, Lucy (Sarah Paulson). The two are clearly estranged, and not just because Martha’s been in a cult for a couple of years; from their exchanges, both the early and the late ones, we can see that the two sisters have never been close. Lucy is now married — a development Martha knew nothing about — to a vaguely uptight architect or developer (all we really know, or need to know, is that he’s some kind of property guy) played by Hugh Dancy. The two welcome her into their luxurious split-level house on the lake, obviously wishing they could unwelcome her. From that point, Martha’s present, in oh-so-safe Connecticut, is intercut with scenes of her past, in that commune somewhere in the Catskills. The place she’s left is presided over by a bookish self-proclaimed prophet named Patrick (John Hawkes, looking like Charles Manson as shot by Walker Evans), who has built a pastoral Utopia where the inhabitants live off the land and allegedly love one another unselfishly. The setup works out fabulously for him — he gets to ritualistically sleep with all the women. But Martha, he claims, is his favorite, and if she stupidly believes it, somehow we do too: She has a solemn, knowing face, with eyes that can melt one minute and pierce the next. She takes to the welcoming pseudowarmth of this new family, even as we can see she’s holding herself apart from it just a little bit. When she’s first introduced to Patrick, by the savvy-dippy young cult member (played by Louisa Krause) who’s taken her under her wing, she compliments him on what he’s done with the land, planting vegetable crops and whatnot. “It’s as much yours as it is mine,” he says with a twinkle of phony generosity in his eyes; she smiles at him a little too demurely, as if to say that she’s listening but not buying, at least not yet. Olsen’s performance is restrained but not tentative; you could say the same for the movie around it. Durkin, who also wrote the script, doesn’t indulge in lots of shaky camera business to convey, you know, the character’s inner turmoil. (The DP here is Jody Lee Lipes.) Even though there’s at least some handheld camera work, you have to really look for it: Some camera dude out there is working really hard at keeping the frame steady, and it’s almost a subliminal effect — if Martha is looking for something to hang onto, maybe we are too, though we barely know it. Durkin is perhaps too obvious in the way he heightens the contrast between Martha’s lumpy-oatmeal commune existence and the overpolished gloss of her sister’s lifestyle. At one point Martha jumps up from sunbathing with her sister on a classy lakeside dock and leaps into the water completely nude, as she would have done back at the old communal swimmin’ hole. Lucy, aghast, hauls her out. “You can’t do that here!” she hisses, and I kept wishing the next line would be, “It’s Connecticut!” But of course it wasn’t — Durkin isn’t going for laughs here, though it’s all too easy to fill in the blanks for ourselves. Still, Paulson and Olsen capture the uneasy electricity of siblings who just can’t get along but who nonetheless remain connected. Paulson plays Lucy as uptight but not unwatchably severe: Sometimes she looks at Martha as if she’d just landed from another planet — or, equally weird, just stepped off a lilypad — and given the unnerving nature of Olsen’s performance, you can see why. One minute she’s bracingly direct; the next she seems to be blinking her way through amniotic fluid, like a newborn lamb fighting for life. You don’t watch her and think, What a dope she is, having fallen for all that hippie-dippie cult stuff. Instead, you see how the perceived security of that makeshift family would make sense to her, up to a point. In other words, Durkin doesn’t condescend to the character he’s written, and in return, Olsen rises to the challenge of that character. At one point, Patrick tries to punish Martha with twisted praise, asserting that she’s a lot like him. Minus the cruelty and the craziness, maybe she is: As Martha, Olsen throws off a muted self-assurance that reads as a kind of charisma. We fear for her every minute, and yet for better or worse, we’d follow her anywhere.

Why Remaining Loyal towards the Original Movie Might Save 'Footloose'

Sometimes remakes make the perfect idea. Just to illustrate: Baz Luhrmann's stylized 1996 undertake 'Romeo + Juliet.' The storyline continues to be told numerous occasions before on stage and screen, but Luhrmann genuinely introduced new things towards the table without compromising the integrity from the original story. This elusive combination is difficult to drag off, and that's why we now have a lot of sub-componen remakes (Cough, cough -- 'Fame' -- cough, cough). Now marks the discharge of another remake. This time around around, Hollywood is moving out 'Footloose' with no side of Sausage. (Yes, I am talking about Kevin.) To complete another 'Footloose' without Sausage aboard just appears wrong. Clearly, producers are wishing that 'Footloose' will take advantage of the current pressing appetite audiences appear to possess for those things dance. Just consider the great recognition of shows like 'Dancing Using the Stars,' and 'So You Believe You Are Able To Dance,' as well as the strangely lucrative dance movie franchises like 'Step Up' and 'Save the final Dance.' As the original 'Footloose' elected to cast an actress within the starring role (the Sausage), the remake takes a gamble on the ballerina (Kenny Wormald). 'DWTS' alum Julianne Hough co-stars because the new Ariel, a.k.a. the preacher's daughter. This move is a little of the warning sign. The 'Fame' remake was broadly belittled to be all sizzle, no steak. It had lots of dazzling dance moments, but didn't have the emotional core that made the initial 'Fame' this type of classic. The truth that the brand new 'Footloose' features ballroom dancers instead of stars signifies it might be headed within the same direction. Nevertheless, there is lots of buzz concerning the new 'Footloose' being incredibly loyal towards the original. You never know, maybe casting ballroom dancers within the primary roles inside a movie about adoration for dancing is definitely an inspired decision. We shall see. Meanwhile, I have put together a listing of other remakes that stuck very, not far from the originals these were having to pay homage to -- with mixed results. 'Let Me In,' 2010 ('Let the correct one In,' 2008). While this is a great remake, it is so loyal towards the original it's quite apparent it had been made purely to attract people too lazy to see subtitles. 'Let Me In' features all the signature moments the Swedish original did, such as the cute Rubik's cube exchange, a healthcare facility fire and, obviously, the pool confrontation. &ampampampampampampltcenter&ampampampampampampgt 'Psycho,' 1998 ('Psycho,' 1960). Gus Van Sant's remake might have been a tad too faithful to Hitchcock's classic for many individuals liking. It carried out poorly in the box office, and experts requested what the purpose of the shot-by-shot remake was. The critical consensus appeared to become that, despite the fact that Van Sant's version is at color, it did not bring anything a new comer to the table to create the endeavor useful. Ouch. &ampampampampampltcenter&ampampampampampgt 'Quarantine,' 2008 ('REC,' 2007). Like 'Let Me In,' this remake appears targeted towards Americans that do not like reading through subtitles. 'Quarantine' is definitely an incredibly faithful adaptation from the popular The spanish language horror flick. It stars 'Dexter's Jennifer Contractor as TV reporter Angela Vidal (they did not even alter the heroine's title from 'REC,' not too there's anything wrong with this) who's covering mysterious occasions at a condominium because they unfold. &ampampampampltcenter&ampampampampgt 'Arthur,' 2011 ('Arthur,' 1981). The contemporary Arthur, performed by Russell Brand, is really a smidge more politically correct than his 1980s counterpart, embodied by Dudley Moore. As the plot seems exactly the same, the alterations the contemporary version made made a big difference, and ultimately hurt the remake. Probably the most glaring offense? Changing Arthur's feisty, fun-loving woman (Liza Minnelli) having a boring goody-goody tour guide (Greta Gerwig). If modern Arthur were built with a formidable partner in crime, the remake might have done the initial justice. &ampampampltcenter&ampampampgt 'Freaky Friday,' 2003 ('Freaky Friday,' 1976). Who does not love a great body-changing comedy? The newest remake, having a pre-breakdown Lindsay Lohan, continued to be quite in keeping with the 1976 version starring Jodie Promote. It integrated a couple of twists to help keep things highly relevant to a twenty-first century audience, like the additions from the fight from the bands along with a bad-boy biker love interest performed by teen heartthrob Chad Michael Murray. &ampampampltcenter&ampampampgt

Webheads aren't well versed history

Watching Fox undergo discussions to ultimately renew "The Simpsons" via a 25th season -- while brother or sister Fox News Funnel partcipates in chest-thumping over its 15th anniversary -- signifies two sides of the progressively common modern media scenario.Confronted with an option between searching ahead or praising history, tradition is nearly almost always ignored because the title of the song from "Fiddler on the top,Inch using the periodic exception.Consider ABC executives determining to jettison the network's decades-old daytime soaps "My Children" and "One Existence to reside,Inch choosing to pursue cheaper talk options. NBC did very similar by ending "Law & Order" just lacking smashing the endurance record for drama series held by "Gunsmoke" -- a milestone that meant something to producer Dick Wolf but less towards the network's then-management, one half-dozen routines taken off the program's beginning.At the time of Fox's contract talks with "The Simpsons" cast, a resource echoed this time by saying from the entertainment division's current brass, "What's 'The Simpsons' mean for them? It isn't like they developed it."Such situations of course setup a difficult situation for professionals. They cannot be shackled through the past -- especially given how quickly the company is altering -- in most cases derive less credit from shepherding another person's development than starting franchises that belongs to them.However a far more subtle facet of it has related to the over-arching preference for that new. Because my way through media dictates more youthful is nice -- beginning with demographic pressure across all ad-supported channels -- the corollary is the fact that older, or anything hitting from it, should be bad.Executives have thus been designed to not get psychologically committed to history. Besides, couple of of these cash durability within their present jobs, which makes it challenging irritated about programs which have run decades -- or their vocal fans -- when tenures in top media posts are extremely frequently measured in annual batches of two and three.By comparison, it's most likely no accident a few of the more effective orgs boast greater stability than rivals.Underlying Fox News' triumphant finish zone dance -- which even incorporated making a number of its normally press-shy anchors open to (gasp) the mainstream media -- is Roger Ailes commemorating his storied run, getting changed his Clinton-era creation in to the dominant pressure in conservative politics. And like many effective media figures, the Fox News Boss give in to a little of gloating -- and seems to experience a vivid memory of anybody whatever person ignored or second-suspected him on the way.For the broadcast systems, it's really no accident CBS remains one of efficiency in primetime. Easily probably the most stable network operation, the organization is not hidebound by tradition but does have a very strong feeling of it.Furthermore, because of the conspicuous insufficient turnover under Boss Leslie Moonves, the organization not just maintains a feeling of its past but really has stored a team in position lengthy enough to assert a substantial slice from the network's history since it's own. (CBS News helps illustrate this time too, if perhaps by juxtaposing "60 Minutes'" legendary sturdiness using the repeated fits and begins which have indicated other facets of the division.)It might be simplistic to express consistency alone is really a hallmark of success, and it's not hard to begin to see the negative effects of hanging out too lengthy, getting observed executives and programs fade the way in which a maturing ballplayer manages to lose his fastball or initial step. Gleam specific rationale behind questioning the stability of lengthy-running Television shows, which -- because of hefty boosts produced through earlier renewal -- frequently cost much more to create than new programs would.Regardless of the logic in adjusting to altering conditions, however, it's more often than not short-sighted to become arbitrary or insensitive when cutting tiesto habit and history, or allow the possible lack of an individual stake to lead to blithely getting rid of tradition. Contact John Lowry at john.lowry@variety.com

Keck's Exclusives: RuPaul's Drag Race Celebrity Judges Revealed!

Ru Paul RuPaul's Drag Race, Logo's campy take on America's Next Top Model, may not be as well known as the CW hit, but it's luring some high-profile guest judges that would make other reality shows jealous. When Season 4 of the competition show - which pits drag queens against each other - kicks off in January, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Rose McGowan, Loretta Devine, Kelly Osbourne and two of my personal faves - Modern Family's Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Glee's Amber Riley - will be sitting pretty at the judging table. What's the draw? "This show does something very special for the gay community," explains Jesse. "There's a message hidden inside the totally gaudy package that is so fun to watch. It's all about loving and accepting yourself, and every season I'm surprisingly moved by it." "I was so excited to do this I started screaming," echoes Amber, who sneaked backstage to see the men transform into ladies. "I am a very big RuPaul fan. She's absolutely gorge. I just had to make sure my hair and makeup were done right if I was in front of drag queens!" Amber also hopes her Glee character, Mercedes, will be given a gender-bending kid brother when the series brings on cross-dressing Glee Project runner-up, Alex Newell, later this season for his two-episode arc. "Alex seems so liberated when he's in drag," Amber says. "It would be great for younger Glee fans to see a character like that." Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Matt's Guide to Thursday TV: Parks By the Book, Grey's Guys Step Up, and More!

Amy Poehler Leslie Knope has literally written the book on Pawnee, Indiana. (Actually, the writers of Parks and Recreation have, and the very amusing mock guidebook - Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America - is available now.) In tonight's Parks episode (NBC, 8:30/7:30c), Leslie's promotional tour for said book lands her on public radio - a satirical spin courtesy of guest Dan Castellaneta (moonlighting from his suddenly contentious Simpsons gig) - and then on Pawnee Today, where the town's chirpiest cheerleader experiences a bit of an identity crisis, courtesy of "Gotcha!" host Joan Calamezzo (the hilarious Mo Gaffney). The episode is just fine, but from what I've skimmed - who has time to read this time of year? - the book is even better. Pay special attention to the advertising supplement in the back, which occasioned several spit takes in my house. Especially the double-truck touting Sweetums' high fructose corn syrup.Want more fall TV news? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!It's boys' night on ABC's Grey's Anatomy (9/8c), as the show switches to the male characters' POV for a change of pace, listening to their voice-overs and various concerns and gripes about the ladies in their lives. But honestly, Derek, lighten up already. The medical metaphor of the week: a stampede at a comic-book convention, which sends all kinds of eccentric characters (men, I presume) to Seattle Grace.So what else is on? ... Some selected highlights: If Raj's new girlfriend on CBS' The Big Bang Theory (8/7c) looks familiar, it's because Katie LeClerc is one of the appealing stars of ABC Family's best summer series Switched at Birth. The twist here being that Raj can't talk to girls, and LeClerc has a hearing disability. ... Michael K. Williams (Boardwalk Empire, The Wire) returns to NBC's Community (8/7c) as the group's intimidating ex-con biology prof, who gives them their first big assignment: a terrarium. The subplot involving security goon Chang, who fancies himself in a noir mystery, sounds even more promising. ... Kelli Williams (most recently of Lie to Me) plays a former client from Patrick Jane's fake-psychic past on CBS' hit The Mentalist (10/9c), who turns to him for help when her son is kidnapped. ... Because 90 minutes each week of Project Runway apparently isn't enough (says who?), Lifetime inaugurates After the Runway (10:30/9:30c), going behind the scenes of the challenges and interviewing the eliminated designer. ... FX's The League (10:30/9:30c) starts its third season with Seth Rogen appearing as porn poseur "Dirty Randy," whose filmmaking antics interfere with the gang's new-season draft. Watch, if you must, for Nick Kroll's "Shiva Bowl Shuffle."Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Billy Bob Thorntons Daughter Can get 20-Year Term

First Launched: October 6, 2011 11:23 AM EDT Credit: Getty Images ORLANDO, Fla. -- Caption Billy Bob Thornton attends the premiere of Manure held at Eccles Theatre throughout the 2010 Sundance Film Festival around the month of the month of january 20, 2009 in Park City, UtahThe estranged daughter of actor Billy Bob Thornton remains sentenced to two decades jail time for your dying from the pals 1-year-old daughter throughout an overnight stay at her home. Amanda Brumfield was sentenced Thursday, four several days after she was billed of inflammed wrongful dying from the child. She was discovered innocent of first-degree murder and inflammed child abuse charges. Brumfield mentioned that Olivia Madison Garcia hit her mind after falling while trying to climb from the playpen. Prosecutors mentioned it absolutely was impossible the fall from that height would create a three-and-a-half inch fracture round the women skull. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Fox Searchlight sets 'Shame' release date

Marking what will be Fox Searchlight's last release this year, the studio has dated Steve McQueen's provocative drama "Shame" for limited release on Dec. 2. Fox Searchlight acquired U.S. distribution rights to the film at the Toronto Film Fest, with the understanding that it would release the film this year. "Shame," the 10th title to go through Fox Searchlight in 2011, stars Michael Fassbender as a sex-addicted 30-something, whose life comes to a head when his younger sister, played by Carey Mulligan, comes to live with him. McQueen co-wrote the script with Abi Morgan; See-Saw Films' Iain Canning and Emile Sherman produced. The film is a difficult sell, given its subject matter and an inevitable restrictive rating, though potential awards traction should draw some attention. Before acquiring "Shame," Fox Searchlight moved "The Descendants" from Nov. 23 to Nov. 18, distancing the two films. The distrib released Kenneth Lonergan's "Margaret" last weekend and will bow Sundance pickup "Martha Marcy May Marlene" on Oct. 21. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com