Corey Stoll joins 'Annie Parker'

StollCorey Stoll has became a member of the cast from the indie drama-comedy "Decoding Annie Parker" opposite Samantha Morton, Helen Search, Aaron Paul, Maggie Sophistication and Rashida Johnson. Stoll made an appearance as Ernest Hemingway in "Night time in Paris" and lately covered with "The Bourne Legacy." He's representing a youthful physician who befriends Samantha Morton's character and attempts to help her achieve her medical goals. "Annie Parker" is presently filming in La with Steven Bernstein pointing. The storyline focuses on the irrepressible Parker, a breast-cancer patient who stops at absolutely nothing to solve the mystery behind her illness regardless of the values from the medical establishment. "Annie Parker" is created by Clark Billings, Stuart Ross, Keith Kjarval, Mary Vernieu and Ron Senkowski with Jonathan Brownlee and Sahil Chanana professional creating. Stoll is symbolized by Suskin Management and Talent Works. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

The Voice Season 2 Scoop: More Blind Audition Models, Bigger Teams, Savvier Participants

The Voice When NBC's The Voice returns next season, it'll be bigger than ever before. You will notice more blind audition models, through which entertainers perform for your coaches sight unseen, and 12 participants per team, up from Season 1's eight. The Voice names Christina Milian as new social media correspondent It isn't apparent exactly the amount of more blind audition episodes will air - they went for just two days taken - but executive producer Mark Burnett states careful analysis expand came from from viewer feedback and becoming more hours to produce them. "We put the show on so quickly a year ago. We just had four several days," he told TVGuide.com carrying out a press conference Friday. "As well as the finest complaint that individuals got was, 'Awww, the blind auditions ended so early.' It absolutely was a quick blip. Therefore I handled to produce a a lot more blind auditions and clearly we're responding regarding the our fans are asking for." Series coaches - Adam Levine, Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Eco-friendly and Blake Shelton - told reporters they remain unworried in regards to the glut of music shows. The Voice returns in February following a Super Bowl, and following a X Factor systems in December, nevertheless it will still have to deal with a completely new season of yank Idol. Aguilera states The Voice's process if the involves selecting entertainers -- the coaches listening only to a performer's voice after which it swinging around in people huge red-colored-colored chairs - remains unmatched. "There is not an even more suspenseful Tv program available," she mentioned. (Burnett added: "These chairs are becoming stars themselves.Inch) Is Carson Daly the founding father of social TV? Asked for particularly in regards to the parallels to Simon Cowell's X Factor, Burnett told TVGuide.com he'd only seen "maybe ten minutesInch in the show. "They really spent a lot of money, it's certainly large. I don't think it's different then other activities I've come across,Inch he mentioned. So while X Factor will award its champion getting a $5 million recording contract, The Voice will remain using its $100,000. "Do you realize what that jogs my memory of? It reminds of Austin Forces. 'One meeeellion dollars,'" Burnett mentioned. "I'm speaking about, people aren't watching the show for the.Inch For that completely new crop of Voice participants - all selected because the show has finished filming Season 2's blind auditions -- the coaches say these were given extra competitive if the found finishing their rosters. "Everyone knows the sport now. It is really an intense competition this year,In . Aguilera mentioned. She boasted that her team includes an opera singer "who allows you to definitely cry." "You wallow inside it wondering the people do not have record contracts," she mentioned. People participants may also be savvier than in the past if the involves picking who they wish to use. "Now, they all are like, 'What is it possible to do personally?AInch Aguilera mentioned. "They experience how it works" when several in the coaches want in. "Without warning, we're individuals pitching ourselves," Levine mentioned. Season 2 in the Voice returns Sunday, Feb. 5 following a Super Bowl on NBC.

FIRST BOX OFFICE: Puss In Boots #1, Paranormal Activity 3 #2, In Time #3, The Rum Diary #4, Footloose #5

FRIDAY PM UPDATE: Sources are giving me these early North American box office numbers which will be refined later in the evening. DreamWorks Animation’s leader Puss In Boots distributed by Paramount is poised to break the Halloween weekend record. The Shrek spinoff’s opening is in line with 2011′s other non-summer animated 3D hits like Rio ($39m) and Rango ($39M).But one rival studio exec snarked to me tonight, “What will DWA think about an opening in the $30sM? Dunno, but it could be more like Puss In Cement Boots.” Fox’s sci-fi thrillerIn Time with Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried is soft considering the wide release. (It’s clear now that Justin, while talented, is no movie star.)Whereas FilmDistrict’sThe Rum Diary withJohnny Depp is performing light as expected.Didn’t he make this movie before and wasn’t it called Fear And Loathing? (“Yes, with the same hungover result. Ouch,” one rival studio exec reminded me.) Full analysis coming. Here’s the Top 5 for now: 1. Puss In Boots (Dreamworks Animation/Paramount) NEW [3,952 Theaters] Friday $9.3M, Estimated Weekend $37M 2. Paranormal Activity 3 (Paramount) Week 2 [3,329 Theaters] Friday $7M (-70%), Estimated Weekend $20.5M, Estimated Cume $73M 3) In Time (Fox) NEW [3,001 Theaters] Friday$4.5M, Estimated Weekend $13M 4) The Rum Diary (FilmDistrict) NEW [2,272 Theaters] [2,272 Theaters] Friday$2M, Estimated Weekend $6M 5) Footloose (Paramount) Week 3 [3,224 Theaters] Friday $1.8M, Estimated Weekend $5.5M, Estimated Cume $38M

All's Faire for each other: Film Review

NY - An astonishingly bad comedy that hardly merits booking below-tier cable, Scott Marshall's All's Faire for each other sneaks into theaters a few years after production, most probably expecting getting a couple of quick dollars from star Christina Ricci's Pan Am exposure. One imagines Ricci's agents are praying because of its quick disappearance. Their hopes is going to be clarified. STORY: 'Pan Am' Star Christina Ricci Describes Why She Boarded the ABC Series We meet Ricci's Kate in the interview that finishes when, strangely, she strips from her business suit and changes right into a flowered dress. It appears she's always imagined of working in a Renaissance Faire, and also the capitalist concentration of a Wall Street interview has finally pressed her toward her future. In the Faire she meets Will (Owen Benjamin), a university jock whose British Lit professor (Cedric the Performer) has agreed to provide him credit for any class he never attended if he'll undergo a summer time of mock-peasantry. Audiences who discover that premise difficult to swallow should mind for that exit before Will meets his tormentor, Rank (a frantically unfunny Chris Wylde), and Rank's three sidekicks -- a French dwarf, a cartoonish Chinaman along with a Mexican oaf named Jamón. PHOTOS: ABC's Year Television Shows: 'Pan Am,' 'Charlie's Angels' and much more In the opening credits -- an animated sequence so crude a junior-high art student could be embarrassed with it -- to some climax by which Kate's dog is taken hostage having a crossbow, there's no ounce of mirth within this parade of ghastly accents, container-eared romantic montages and cent-store knavery. A director whose last film was the Jessica Simpson explosive device Blonde Ambition might worry that this can be a career-killer. Opens: October 28 (MGM, Regal Entertainment exclusive) Production companies: Patriot Pictures, Duke of You are able to Pictures, That's Hollywood Cast: Christina Ricci, Owen Benjamin, Matthew Lillard, Ann-Margret, Chris Wylde, Nadine Velazquez, Cedric the Performer Director: Scott Marshall Screenwriters: Scott Marshall, Jeffrey Ray Wine Producers: Michael Mendelsohn, Ron Singer, Scott Reed Executive producers: Randy Mendelsohn, Mark Lindsay Director of photography: Mark Irwin Production designer: John Collins Music: Shaun Cardoni, Julian Jackson Costume designer: Gary Johnson Editors: Josh Muscatine, Tara Timpone Ranked PG-13, 107 minutes Ann-Margaret Christina Ricci

TV Promo: Rock Center With John Williams

NBC’s primetime newsmagazine Rock Center With John Williams, that's set to premiere on Halloween, is distributing the term via some short promotions. That certain introduces the show’s adding factors — then one who didn’t quite increase the risk for cut. Williams is actually effective in letting his spontaneity show. Let’s discover if his show carries the identical light touch among all people hard-news tales.

NBC Buys 'Apocalipstick' Comedy, 'Masters and Apprentice' Drama from BermanBraun (Exclusive)

NBC scoops up two more projects from former network honchos Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun. The network has purchased scripts for dramaMasters and Apprentice and comedyApocalipstick. The first kind, in the pair's BermanBraun and Universal Television, focuses on a rookie FBI agent who enlists the use of a legendary but mysterious former operative to assist him infiltrate the shadowy group accountable for his parents' dying. The project is going to be written and executive created by Criminal Minds scribesDan Dworkin and Jay Beattie, with Gene Stein(Alphas, The Cape)becoming a professional producer. Berman and Braun are generally attached as non-writing Expanded polystyrene. The second is really a comedy, also from BermanBraun and Universal Television, in regards to a lady's father who eventually ends up dating her senior high school enemy. The project is going to be written and executive created by Julie Klausner (Ugly People in america, Best Week Ever), with Stein, Berman and Braun aboard as executive producers. Karen Spiegel will function as a co-executive producer. Dworkin and Beattle, whose other writing credits range from the Event and Whim, are repped by ICM Klausner is repped by WME. Related Subjects NBC TV Development

Lynne Ramsay Sets Her Sights on Moby Dick... in Outer Space

After writer-director Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar) debuts her latest film, this December’s moody Tilda Swinton-Ezra Miller pic We Need to Talk About Kevin, she’ll set her sights on more classic fare: Herman Melville’s Moby Dick… only, set in space. “We’re taking the premise into the realm of the galaxy; it’s creating a whole new world, and a new alien, a very psychological piece” Ramsay told Radio 5 Live’s Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo. “Mainly taking place in the ship, a bit like Das Boot, so it’s quite claustrophobic. It’s another monster movie, in a way, ‘cause the monster’s Ahab.” Stick around for more happenings in today’s Buzz Break. center> [Radio 5 Live via The Guardian] If you caught (and loved) Elizabeth Olsen in Martha Marcy May Marlene last weekend, you may be delighted to hear that her other Sundance ‘11 picture, the one-take horror remake Silent House, will be in theaters next March. [Cinema Blend] Dark Tower’s not all the way dead yet, says Brian Grazer, who told MTV that they’d shaved $45 million off the original budget and are moving forward by partnering with HBO. [MTV] You can be one of the first to see six minutes of The Dark Knight Rises this December! But only in front of showings of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol on proper 70mm IMAX screens. [Slashfilm] Happy Halloween week! Get in the spirit via Guillermo del Toro, who recently recounted his real-life ghost encounters, one of which was so spooky he had to cleanse by watching The Wire. [Toronto Star]