U getting 'Potter' park to H'wood

The Wizarding Realm of Harry Potter in the Universal Orlando Resort.Hollywood gets its very own version of "The Wizarding Realm of Harry Potter." Universal Galleries and Warner Bros. have decided to pony up around $200 million to construct another version from the theme-park attraction that opened up June 18, 2010, at Islands of chance in Orlando. The designed area has converted into a high draw not just for U however the Orlando area, with vacationers scrambling to Islands of chance, improving ticket and merchandise sales. NBCUniversal now wants its Hollywood park to profit from the similar attraction just like Disneyland is going to open "Cars Land" next summer time. Due to "Wizarding World's" instant success, the initial question was when Universal would expand the park in Florida, given the quantity of land the organization is the owner of there. The attraction features replicas of Hogwarts Castle and Hogsmeade village as observed in the flicks and includes rides like "Flight from the Hippogriff" and "Dragon Challenge." Rather, U and WB made a decision to develop a second "Wizarding World" in Hollywood. Where, exactly, the attraction is going to be located, is really a key question. Universal Galleries Hollywood is a lot more compact than Islands of chance and Universal Galleries Orlando, restricting designers on precisely where new points of interest could be added. The Hollywood park is presently creating a three dimensional ride according to Paramount's "Transformers" franchise which will open next spring on its lower lot, changing the first kind "Backdraft" attraction. Older points of interest may likely need to be removed to make room for that new Potter attraction. U spent around $265 million to construct "The Wizarding Realm of Harry Potter." A 2015 opening date has been eyed for that Hollywood version. Attraction increased attendance to Islands of chance by 20% red carpet several weeks and 41% following a year, probably the most since June 2004. A lot more than 7 million individuals are believed to getting visited the "Wizarding Realm of Harry Potter" alone since its opening. WB controls the certification privileges towards the "Harry Potter" film franchise and receives royalties from merchandise offered around the block. NBCUniversal works Universal Galleries, that has been wanting to lock lower points of interest based on the top tentpoles. U had recently been thinking of getting its other overseas parks for any new "Wizarding World," together with a planned park in Columbia. The timing from the Potter park expansion, which requires approval from J.K. Rowling, may come as WB lately launched its eight-film collection of all the "Harry Potter" films on Blu-ray. Contact Marc Graser at marc.graser@variety.com

The Muppets Return Large But Can't Catch Breaking Beginning

The Muppets The Muppets made their comeback complete, grossing an thought $42 million inside the five-day Thanksgiving weekend, but Kermit and Miss Piggy were not any match for your vampires of the underworld from the underworld and werewolves of Twilight: Breaking Beginning Part 1. The fourth film inside the Twilight saga needed in $62.3 million within the second week later on in at No. 1, according to Box Office Mojo. The Muppets, starring Jason Segel and may Be, adopted in second place. Twilight: Breaking Beginning Part 1 opens large Happy Foot Two needed third place with $18.3 million. Another two major releases in the holiday weekend, Arthur Christmas and Hugo, showed up at No. 4 without any. 5, correspondingly. Arthur Christmas came $17 million in ticket sales. Hugo nabbed $15.3 million. Jack and Jill ranked sixth with $14.millions of. At No. 7, Immortals attracted $12.5 million. Rounding the very best ten: Puss in Boots (No. 8, $10.3 million, getting its total to $135.4 million), Tower Heist (No. 9, $10.millions of) as well as the Descendants (No. 10, $9.2 million).

Ben Whishaw to experience Mission Impossible Character Q in 'Skyfall'

Director Mike Mendes is unquestionably attempting to in the hot factor for that latest Mission Impossible movie, 'Skyfall.' Additionally towards the return of Difficulties because the primary character, the Hollywood Reporter states that British hottie/acting sensation Ben Whishaw is going to be playing Bond character Q. Using the casting of Whishaw, Q is going to be more youthful than 007, marking the very first time within the film franchise's history that Q is not performed by someone older. The final time we had Q is at 2002's 'Die A Later Date,A where he was performed with a nutty John Cleese. In most of his previous incarnations, he was performed by Desmond Llewelyn. Fans from the classic 'James Bond' movies will remember Q, the gadget master, that has made an appearance in 19 from the 22 films. He's best-noted for handing the intricate devices to Bond to be used on his missions. Q (short for Quartermaster) may be the mind of Q Branch (or later Q Division), the imaginary research and development division from the British Secret Service. To date the 'Skyfall' cast is really a humdinger, with Judi Dench, Javier Bardem, Rob Fiennes and Albert Finney one of the other stars. 'Skyfall' is placed to spread out in The United States in November 2012. Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook [Photo: AFP/Getty Images] #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-803307.cke_show_edges #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-803307, #postcontentcontainer #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-803307

ROLL CALL: Snookis Kitty Litter Beauty Regime Revealed!

First Published: November 17, 2011 3:57 PM EST Credit: Getty Premium Caption Nicole Snooki Polizzi attends the book signing for her new book Confessions Of A Guidette at Barnes & Noble Glendale Americana in Glendale, Calif. on November 15, 2011LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Meow!: Jersey Shore cherub Nicole Snooki Polizzi is out imparting her wisdom on the world once again, this time shes offering up beauty tips that might make your cat a little confused. The reality star stopped by Conan last night, where she told the talk show host that she uses kitty litter as part of her skin care regime. Some exfoliates have rocks in them and it makes your skin really smooth, and cat litter is a good substitute, she said. I havent broke out at all yet! Check out more with Snooki including the star clearing up those pesky going lesbian rumors HERE! Bradleys True Loves: Sexiest Man Alive 2011 Bradley Coopers love life is always a hot topic, but People reveals that his two true loves dont exactly run with a Hollywood pack. Meet Bradleys Samson and Charlotte HERE! Sexiest Man Alive Backlash!: Not everyone is happy about Bradley Cooper getting named Sexiest Man Alive 2011. In fact, heres 63 reasons why many thought Ryan Gosling should have nabbed the coveted title. More Real Housewives Drama!: Could this season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills get any more drama-filled!? It appears Kim Richards new man Ken Blumenfeld has an arrest past, Radar Online is reporting. Check out Kens mug shot after being arrested in 2009 for a DUI, HERE! This cant make sister Kyle Richards (who was reduced to tears after she learned that her sister was dating him on this weeks episode) happy. -By Jesse Spero Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

OWN orders more 'America,' 'Sweetie'

Searching for some positive ratings stories since its birth nearly a year ago, OWN is making strides with "Our America With Lisa Ling" and "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's." Cabler has ordered eight more segs of "Our America" and 10 for "Sweetie Pie's." The additional episodes for both shows will air in the spring. For the current season, docuseries "Our America," which is OWN's most-watched program and airs at 10 p.m. Sunday, is averaging 405,000 total viewers and is up 47% compared to the Discovery Health programming from a year ago. Reality skein "Sweetie Pie's" examines a St. Louis family running a soul food restaurant. Show is averaging 388,000 and is OWN's top show in the 25-54 demo. Series airs 9 p.m. Saturday Ling, David Shadrack Smith and Greg Henry exec produce "Our America." Exec producers for "Sweetie Pie's" are Craig Piligian, Jenn Duncan, Tim Brietbach, Jeff Keane, and Steve Luebbert. It's been tough sledding at OWN, so the news on the additional episodes comes at a crucial time. Discovery-owned cabler has lost more than $55 million this year and recent new shows "Rosie" and "Oprah's Lifeclass" have performed modestly. Contact Stuart Levine at stuart.levine@variety.com

'Breaking Dawn' opening could fetch $140 million

Summit's 'Breaking Dawn' is anticipated to gross between $110 million and $140 million weekend in the domestic B.O.Hollywood is bracing for an additional mad hurry of hardcore "Twilight" fans, as Summit comes the franchise's penultimate offering "Breaking Beginning -- Part 1" in countrywide night time tests Thursday. By Wednesday mid-day, the film's approximate night time count stands at 3,250 locations, before growing Friday to 4,061. While B.O. commentators are predicting "Breaking Beginning" could achieve $140 million through Sunday, Summit has more modest anticipation, varying between $110 million and $125 million. "Breaking Beginning" launches day-and-date using the U.S. in 54 overseas marketplaces. Such as the previous "Twilight" choices, the franchise's second-to-last pic will discover a mostly frontloaded perf by teens and teenagers, though Summit prexy of domestic distribution Richie Fay stated repeat viewings by femmes could still propel grosses. "Sometimes women can come out one screening, simply to purchase a ticket for the following show," Fay stated. Based on online ticketing service Fandango, the film had offered out a lot more than 2,500 showtimes by early now. The website also reported that 47% of ticket purchasers intend to attend the night time tests in formal wedding attire. "Breaking Beginning," allocated for any reported $110 million, accumulates with human-vampire couple Jacob Black and A Vampire Named Edward because they get ready for their wedding. Summit introduced in June 2010 it might split author Stephenie Meyer's final "Twilight" book into two parts, with "Part 2" set to bow this time around the coming year. "Part 1" faces a higher all-time night time record ($43.5 million) set this summer time by "Harry Potter and also the Deathly Hallows: Part 2." It's difficult to express whether "Breaking Beginning" can break that record, since "Deathly Hallows" achieved positive results from the wider demo of youngsters on holiday. The pic seemed to be the ultimate "Potter" within the series. In either case, "Breaking Beginning" could one-up its forerunners in night time grosses. The franchise's third offering, "Eclipse," kickstarted its Stateside run this past year with $$ 30 million, while "New Moon" gained $26.3 million from late-evening tests. Similar to "Deathly Hallows: Part 2," "Eclipse" achieved positive results from the summer season berth the second pic, which gained $157.six million in the first six days, also bowed in a record quantity of locations -- 4,408. "New Moon," meanwhile, released this same weekend last year for any three-day total of $142.8 million. This is a fair opening benchmark for "Breaking Beginning," based on some commentators. Fay stated group ticket sales for "Breaking Beginning" are simply as robust because the previous two "Twilights," with corporate buyouts (companies buying entire tests for giveaway reasons) improving pre-sales for "Breaking Beginning." Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com

Fred Savage Launches Production Co., Signs Overall Deal With CBS TV Art galleries

EXCLUSIVE: Actor-switched-director/producer Fred Savage is setting his sights on development next. Savage has launched a production company and contains signed a couple-year overall deal with CBS TV Art galleries to develop new projects, that they'll produce and direct. Savage, who burst to the scene since the child actor round the Question Years, ongoing to star on such series as Working and Crumbs before segueing into TV pointing and recently growing into creating too. He's directed greater than 100 cases of primetime series, most recently, ABC’s Modern Family andHappy Being, and CBS 2 Broke Women. Savage, repped by CAA and Karl Austen, offered as director/producer on It's Often Sunny in Philadelphia, and Party Lower, which is presently executive creating and pointing two projects at NBC, mid-season comedy series Close Buddies Forever plus an untitled Tommy Dewey/Greg Bratman project, now in development.

Clint Eastwoods J. Edgar Opens Strong

Early estimations from Warner Bros has J. Edgar bowing to alow-key but healthymidweek $53,000 inlimited runs Wednesday in 7 movie theaters in five urban centers LA, NY, Chicago, Washington Electricity, and San Francisco Bay Area. That was sufficient for twelfth devote the slow U . s . States box office, besting movies playing in thousands of locations. The Oscar-buzzed biopic starring LeonardDoCaprio opens country wide on Friday in 1,910 locations. Monitoring remains strong for the days,particularly among grownups.

'Call Up' tops Brit List

LONDON -- "The Telephone Call Up," a sci-fi horror script by Charles Barker occur the area of virtual gaming, tops the 2010 Brit List, which ranks most likely probably the most loved unproduced scripts inside the U.K. and Irish film community. Barker can be a ads director with extensive CGI experience. "The Telephone Call Up," which heads this list with 10 votes, continues to be created by rookie producer Matt Wilkinson, who left his publish just like a development professional at Working Title taken to start their very own company Stigma Films. The Brit List is modelled on Hollywood's Black List, which asks a pool of development professionals, agents and producers to recommend a typical unproduced scripts. Second in this particular year's Brit List, with eight votes, is William Boyd's adaptation that belongs to them novel "Regular Thunderstorms," that's being created by David Thompson's Origin Pictures with BBC Films. It's a thriller a great innocent guy being attacked across London by police together with a hitman. In joint third place, with seven votes each, are Henrietta and Jessica Ashworth's comedy "Olivia and Jim" from Forward Films, and Hong Khaou's drama "Lilting yesteryearInch from producer Dominic Buchanan, of a making it through mother trying to create sense of her son's dying. Origin Pictures has two other highly-placed projects available, playwright Polly Stenham's adaptation of her own play "Tusk Tusk," and James Graham's "X+Y" of a teenage math prodigy's mission to get the formula for love. Both received six votes, along with "Guy Up" by Tess Morris, a romantic comedy being created by Large Talk for Studiocanal. This list includes several game game titles by high-profile authors. William Davies, whose credits include "Johnny British Reborn" and "The best way to Train Your Dragon," has five votes for his drama "Second Is Nowhere," in development at BBC Films. Among the scripts with four votes will be the Focus Features project "Baghdad Wedding," modified by Hassan Abdulrassak using their own play, along with Nick Drake Jay Basu's crime thriller "Bad Traffic" for producers David Gerson, Nick Wechsler and Rory Gilmartin and Juliette Towhidi's adaptation of Vera Brittan's classic WW1 memoir "Testament of Youth" for Heyday. Also with four votes are Sebastian Foster's Western "Burnthaven" for Cloud Eight Films, and Catherine Shepherd's comedy "As being a Virgin" of a contemporary and unvirginal Mary who finds out she'll give birth to a different Deliverer. Scripts with three votes include "The Invisible Lady," in regards to the mistress of Charles Dickens, put together by Abi Morgan ("Shame," "The Iron Lady") and a pair of adaptations of John LeCarre books. "Our Kind of Traitor," modified by Hossein Amini ("Drive"), and "A Well Known Guy," modified by Andrew Bovell ("Lantana") with Anton Corbijn set to direct. Both LeCarre projects are increasingly being created by Ink Factory and Potboiler Prods. Other notable projects with three votes include "Miss You Already," by director Paul Andrew Williams and comedienne Morwenna Banks an adaptation of Edith Wharton's "The Buccaneers" by Heidi Thomas for Ruby Films a David Nicholls version of Thomas Hardy's novel "Definately Not the Madding Crowd" for DNA Films and "I, Macrobane," a black comedy by author/director Ben Wheatley, being created by Large Talk. Finishing this list are Amber Trentham and Thomas Carty's romantic thriller "Available Light" Trevor Preston's thriller "China Busker" Nicholas Horwood's horror script "The Truly Amazing People" Howard Overman's comedy thriller "The Slackfi Project," in development in the new the new sony David F. Shamoon's road movie "RemovingInch and Joshua St Johnston's musical "Walking on Sunshine" with Vertigo. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Skyfall Confirmed As Title Of Recent Bond Movie Budget Around $230M Mike Mendes States Hes Available To Follow-up

Shooting around the latest Mission Impossible movie begins Monday, Difficulties revealed only at that morning press conference for Skyfall, the 23rd 007 movie. Producer Michael G Wilson scotched United kingdom tabloid whispers the plan for the most recent Bond film continues to be slashed by $100 million. Were within the same cost range because the last film. We havent needed to change anything within the script. Actually, we keep adding things everything will probably be just like it had been, he stated. Director Mike Mendes also refused he was creating a downbeat Bond with less action sequences. He'd be pointing action sequences themself. You will see lots of surprises, Mendes guaranteed. The experience must be balanced using the drama. Mendes stated he was available to pointing another Bond installment, basically still believe its as entertaining in 6 several weeks time then the reply is yes. Mendes, Broccoli yet others were giving little away only at that morning presser: In Skyfall, Bonds loyalty to M is examined as her past returns to haunt her MI6 comes under attack, and Bond must find and destroy the threat. While verifying Deadline’s scoop that Javier Bardem would take part in the villain, Mendes was coy whether Bardem could be playing Blofeld, as film writer John Logan has suggested. What's known is the fact that Skyfall is going to be mostly shot mostly around Whitehall, London (the federal government district), Scotland, Istanbul and China. Eon Productions used this morning event to unveil latest Bond girl Brnice Marlohe, playing a personality known as Severine. Other cast people confirmed include Albert Finney, Rob Fiennes, Ben Whishaw and Naomie Harris, playing a secret agent named Eve. The new sony will release Skyfall in The United States on November 9 2012, following its United kingdom/Ireland premiere on October 26. The Academy Award-winning director stated he desired to do Bond because hed been an admirer since likely to see Live and Let Die within the cinema. Plus I figured that Daniel playing Bond opened up up a variety of fantastic possibilities for that character, he stated. Broccoli wouldn't discuss speculation that Brit pop star Adele will sing the theme song: Weve been thinking about various people for that theme tune, she stated. Mendes added that Skyfall wasn't a continuation from the previous 2 Bond excursions, which in fact had a running story. Broccoli also says Difficulties could be playing Bond not less than once more. Personally I cant help but feel Skyfall is really a lame title for any Mission Impossible movie even Everything Or Free, a Mission Impossible videogame title could be better.