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Dev Patel cast in 'The Man Who Knew Infinity'
17 May 2013 7:44 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Dev Patel has been cast in The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan.
The Slumdog Millionaire star's role as the famed Indian mathematician was announced at the Cannes Film Festival.
The film centres around the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan, who worked in isolation in Edwardian India before joining the wider mathematics community in Cambridge.
Matthew Brown will direct from the script he wrote based on Robert Kanigel's biography, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Patel has also starred in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and features in Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom.
The Man Who Knew Infinity will begin shooting in the autumn.
Gallery - Cannes 2013 pictures: »
'The Simpsons' finale: Seth MacFarlane sings Sinatra, hits on Marge -- Exclusive Video
17 May 2013 7:15 AM, PDT | EW - Inside TV | See recent EW.com - Inside TV news »
Who’s trying to come between Homer and Marge in the season finale of The Simpsons? Sounds like Seth MacFarlane. The Family Guy creator/masterthroat will voice the role of Ben, a charmer who makes a play for Marge after she obliviously winds up on a Ashley Madison-type website. Will Marge be able to get the Sinatra-crooning Ben out of her mind? Check out the following clip.
The episode airs Sunday at 8:30 p.m. on Fox.
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‘The Simpsons’: Seth MacFarlane episode will now air as season finale on May 19
Kristen Wiig to guest as FBI »
- Dan Snierson
Kristen Wiig Brings Justice To The Simpsons
16 May 2013 3:09 PM, PDT | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »
Homer Simpson had better be on his best behavior when comedienne Kristen Wiig comes to Springfield. That’s happening when the Bridesmaids actress guests on The Simpsons.
It will be a crime not to laugh when Kristen Wiig gets Simpsonized. The former Saturday Night Live lady gets animated for an upcoming Simpsons episode to air on Fox in the fall, according to the EW report. Speaking of SNL, Wiig returned to the familiar comedy set to host back on May 11. She may have played host then, for The Simpsons she’ll play an officer of the law. She’s an FBI agent! How interesting.
The episode, to be titled “Homerland,” reveals Homer acting out of character. He’s too nice after returning from a nuclear power plant convention. This is very suspicious behavior, suspicious enough for his daughter, Lisa to enlist the help of an “intense” FBI agent. That will be Wiig’s character. »
- Sasha Nova
'The Simpsons': Kristen Wiig to guest as FBI agent -- Exclusive
15 May 2013 9:19 AM, PDT | EW - Inside TV | See recent EW.com - Inside TV news »
The Simpsons will go for laughs next season by putting on a Wiig: Kristen Wiig, the former Saturday Night Live star who returned as host on May 11, is lending her voice to an episode that is slated to air on Fox in the fall, EW has learned.
In “Homerland,” Homer starts to act strangely polite after returning from a nuclear power plant convention, prompting a suspicious Lisa to ask an intense FBI agent (Wiig) to help her solve this mystery.
This isn’t Wiig’s first trip to Springfield: She played a substitute music teacher who draws the interest of »
- Dan Snierson
"I come from a theater background. Aaron Sorkin is my favorite. I love talk. Dialogue to me is my..."
14 May 2013 6:02 PM, PDT | Hollywonk | See recent Hollywonk news »
“I come from a theater background. Aaron Sorkin is my favorite. I love talk. Dialogue to me is my stock in trade so I loved it. Learning about it all was actually really cool. I read the Steve Jobs biography. I looked into also to be able to get into it and explain it and explain it in a way that actually made sense to me was actually really fun.”
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Betas star Joe Dinicol on mastering the tech talk his character so smoothly delivers (watch the show for free here)
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President Bartlet Resigned Ten Years Ago Today
14 May 2013 10:00 AM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Sunday was the twentieth anniversary of the "Donna Martin graduates!" episode of 90210. Next week marks the tenth anniversary of Rory Gilmore's high-school graduation. And today's another important graduation anniversary: Zoey Bartlet graduated from college ten years ago on The West Wing. And then she got kidnapped! And then Aaron Sorkin left the show, and nothing was ever quite the same."Commencement," the penultimate episode of Ww's fourth season, aired May 7 — and that's the one that ends with Molly the Secret Service agent getting shot and Ron Butterfield racing to tell Leo that Zoey had been abducted. But "Twenty-Five," which aired May 14, 2003, is the one that begins with Leo telling the president and First Lady. It's also the one with Toby where Toby finds out babies come with hats. Sigh. The episode ends with President Bartlet invoking the 25th Amendment and temporarily handing over power to Southern John »
- Margaret Lyons
Reporter Congratulates Matthew Perry On 'Go On' Cancellation
13 May 2013 12:50 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Matthew Perry hasn't had the best post-"Friends" TV track record: "Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip," the 2007 Aaron Sorkin drama he starred in, was canceled after a season, as was Perry's 2011 comedy "Mr. Sunshine." Then last week, NBC axed his latest show "Go On" after its first season as well.
Asking an actor about his/her show being canceled -- i.e., losing his/her job -- is definitely a touchy territory, and one perhaps misinformed reporter found the most awkward way to bring up the news of "Go On's" cancellation in an interview with Perry.
While at an L.A. Kings game this weekend, Fox Sports West reporter Dan Moriarty talked to Perry, a longtime Kings fan, and asked about his loyalty to the team and "Go On." "Big news today and congratulations is in order," Moriarty said in the interview (above). A slightly shocked Perry took »
- Jaimie Etkin
Celebrity Commencement Speakers 2013
10 May 2013 1:25 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
As much as we're looking forward to hearing what current and former presidents, major CEOs and acclaimed journalists have to say this graduation season, let's be honest: The celebrity commencement speeches are the ones everyone will be talking about.
Consider that last year actress Jane Lynch talked about porn and "Newsroom" writer Aaron Sorkin told grads, "You are dumb." And at Princeton, Steve Carrell championed the character-building of humiliation and rejection.
Elsewhere Andy Samberg's speech at Harvard's Class Day was pretty legendary, giving Will Ferrell's amazing speech at the Ivy League school's 2003 event a run for its money.
So the question is simply, which of the folks below is going to come out with the line that gets everybody talking?
Check out the lineup in the slideshow below: »
- Tyler Kingkade
TV Academy Honors Tough but Sweet
10 May 2013 9:44 AM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Bouncy houses and cancer. Jason Katims‘ eloquent juxtaposition of the two set the tone for the sixth annual TV Academy Honors on Thursday at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Katims, the showrunner of “Parenthood” – one of eight programs being honored at the Phil Gurin-produced event for their use of television to promote positive social change – described in his acceptance speech how an NBC marketing clip, showing the series’ cast frolicking in a bouncy house, made him question whether to dedicate the show’s fourth season to a plot in which the character played by Monica Potter would suffer through cancer.
“Must we continue to dwell,” on such grim events, Katims wondered to himself, “when the world offers bouncy houses?”
Katims said that over the first three seasons of “Parenthood,” featuring numerous storylines of challenge and struggle, the writing staff was digging deep within themselves to tell great stories – “and saving a fortune in therapy, »
- Jon Weisman
'Game of Thrones' star Natalie Dormer talks 'Elementary' arc as Irene Adler
9 May 2013 7:00 AM, PDT | EW - Inside TV | See recent EW.com - Inside TV news »
As we say in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly hitting stands Friday, behind every man with a thirst for sex and power is an equally clever, manipulative woman… who could be played brilliantly by Natalie Dormer.
The 31-year-old Brit, who broke out Stateside in 2007 as the seductive Anne Boleyn to Jonathan Rhys Meyers’ King Henry VIII in The Tudors and now embodies King Joffrey’s shrewd betrothed Margaery Tyrell on HBO’s Game of Thrones, begins a three-episode stint tonight as Sherlock Holmes’ iconic love Irene Adler on CBS’ Elementary (through May 16′s two-hour season finale). “It’s a »
- Mandi Bierly
Where Each Office Cast Member Is Headed Next
8 May 2013 11:45 AM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
The Office is almost over. Just this week's and next week's, and that's all she wrote. Though there will be a hole in the Thursday schedule — and in our hearts — for a good while, this is part of the circle of TV life. Shows end! But The Office will never truly be gone, especially since so many of its cast members already have things lined up. Gaze with us into the future. John Krasinski (Jim): He's still plugging away with Aaron Sorkin on a project about the Chateau Marmont; plus, he's in the new episodes of Arrested Development. Jenna Fischer (Pam): She has two movies in the can, but in the immediate future you can see her in an Off Broadway production of Reasons to Be Happy. Ed Helms (Andy): He's got Hangover III coming out shortly, plus a few smaller movies in the next few months, »
- Margaret Lyons
Aaron Sorkin Says the New Season of 'The Newsroom' Will Focus on One Larger Story
7 May 2013 9:08 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
HBO has released a video teasing the new season of Aaron Sorkin's divisive drama "The Newsroom," set to return on July 14. In addition to promising that doughty "News Night" anchor Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) and his ditzily devoted producer and ex Mac McHale (Emily Mortimer) will continue to be in love but separated by their need to bicker about their past relationship, creator and showrunner Sorkin offers up an interesting tidbit about the new round of episodes. "The second season of 'The Newsroom' has a different structure than the first season did -- there's one story that goes through the entire season," he says, noting that the show will kick off with characters "being prepared for a deposition they're going to have to give in a wrongful termination suit" about something called "Operation Genoa" that will presumably unfold in flashbacks over the 12-episode arc. "The Newsroom »
- Alison Willmore
Aaron Sorkin Says the New Season of 'The Newsroom' Will Focus on One Larger Story
7 May 2013 9:08 AM, PDT | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
HBO has released a video teasing the new season of Aaron Sorkin's divisive drama "The Newsroom," set to return on July 14. In addition to promising that doughty "News Night" anchor Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) and his ditzily devoted producer and ex Mac McHale (Emily Mortimer) will continue to be in love but separated by their need to bicker about their past relationship, creator and showrunner Sorkin offers up an interesting tidbit about the new round of episodes. "The second season of 'The Newsroom' has a different structure than the first season did -- there's one story that goes through the entire season," he says, noting that the show will kick off with characters "being prepared for a deposition they're going to have to give in a wrongful termination suit" about something called "Operation Genoa" that will presumably unfold in flashbacks over the 12-episode arc. "The Newsroom »
- Alison Willmore
Insightful Aaron Sorkin Featurette On ‘The Newsroom’: Season Two
7 May 2013 4:06 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
You’d never believe that a series that quite literally features old news could be so good, but The Newsroom in Season One massively impressed throughout and begun to build something very interesting. With Season Two just around the corner, creator and writer Aaron Sorkin has given us a short featurette that talks about each character and what’s about to begin to happen in their lives.
Sorkin also talks about the change in structure for the development of every character, we all know his writing creates hyper-thinking individuals but this is an intelligent place to work, so we’re very hopeful for what’s to come. The show proves that smart is still interesting and all you’ve got to do to keep up with their lives, is listen and use your brain a little. I bloody loved the first season and can’t wait for the new one to begin, »
- Dan Bullock
‘The Newsroom’ Season 2 Preview: Lawsuits, Elections & More
6 May 2013 4:33 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Aaron Sorkin’s somewhat polarizing cable drama about the drama that goes on behind the scenes of a cable news network, The Newsroom, is back for season 2 on July 14, and according to a new sneak peak video that takes us behind the scenes of the show, a few big changes are on the way.
As the video above shows, the show will spend the entire season focusing on a deposition for a wrongful termination lawsuit. Now, that sounds just… riveting, but there’s also mentions about Neal’s fascination with the Occupy movement and Jim’s departure to cover the Romney campaign during the 2012 Election, so one would imagine that there will be plenty of flashbacks throughout the season.
Often accused of slightly ripping himself off during The Newsroom‘s debut season, the decision to use the “deposition device” may open Sorkin up to more of ...
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- Jason Tabrys
Watch a Preview For The Newsroom's New Season
6 May 2013 1:22 PM, PDT | BuzzSugar | See recent BuzzSugar news »
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- Maggie Pehanick
The Newsroom Season 2 Preview: A Change in Direction
6 May 2013 1:09 PM, PDT | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »
The Newsroom is shifting gears in its second season, as evidenced by a new preview from HBO.
Season 2 "has a different structure than the first season," creator Aaron Sorkin says, teasing the central arc as all of the characters prepare to be deposed in a wrongful termination lawsuit.
This isn't to say the individual storylines of The Newsroom Season 1 will be abandoned.
Jim (John Gallagher, Jr.) will be following the Mitt Romney campaign, as Neil (Dev Patel) focuses on the burgeoning Occupy movement and Maggie (Alison Pill) is engulfed by crises.
Watch the behind-the-scenes Season 2 preview below and see what you think:
The Newsroom Season 2 Preview »
- steve@iscribelimited.com (Steve Marsi)
'Newsroom' Season 2 sneak peek: Jim leaves the office as Sloan and Don get closer
6 May 2013 1:06 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
The first season of Aaron Sorkin's HBO drama "The Newsroom" divided critics and fans with its inside look at a fictional cable news operation covering real life events.
Whether you thought Season 1 was brilliant, silly or somewhere in-between, the message of the show's Season 2 promo is: We're making a show for everyone!
"This season is a lot of fun, very exciting," Sorkin promises in the promo above. "Anybody coming to it new is not going to have much trouble picking up what's going on."
There will be a new overarching story (much of the Acn crew is preparing for a deposition) and big challenges for returning characters: Jim opts to leave office tensions and love triangles behind to cover Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, Sloan and Don are going to get closer and Maggie will "lose everything" (ruh roh!).
Maybe the best news for fans? Chris Messina will be »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Inside 'The Newsroom' Season 2
6 May 2013 12:44 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
"The Newsroom" Season 2 will have a different format than the first season. In a new behind-the-scenes preview video, series creator Aaron Sorkin and HBO give fans a look at the new season.
The season will have a wrongful termination lawsuit as a long-running story as its backbone. But who was fired? "The Newsroom" Season 2 will also feature the 2012 election, Occupy Wall Street and lots of personal turmoil for the characters.
"Anybody coming to it new, is not going to have much trouble picking up what's going on," Sorkin says in the video above.
"The Newsroom" Season 2 premieres Sunday, July 14 at 10 p.m. Et on HBO.
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- Chris Harnick
The Newsroom Season 2 Early Glimpse Video!
6 May 2013 10:32 AM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
The second season of The Newsroom gets into gear from Sunday, July 14th at 10 p.m. Et/Pt. HBO's sent us a new video providing an early look at the eagerly-anticipated upcoming sophomore session. In the new season, the staff of "News Night" chases a mysterious tip, which leads to a story that ultimately spins out of control. Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, Sam Waterston, John Gallagher, Jr., Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski, Olivia Munn and Dev Patel star. The series is created by Aaron Sorkin who also serves as executive producer along with Scott Rudin and Alan Poul. »
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