The Hobbit Trailer Will Be Here!

Along with the first posterChristmas Trailer Week continues with the beginning of Peter Jackson's fanatically-anticipated return to Middle Earth, The Hobbit: An Unforeseen Journey, the initial full clip that simply turned up.Crikey: steps to start? Well, first we've got Ian Holm as Bilbo, revealing in voice-over he might possibly not have told Frodo quite the entire story of his previous adventures. You have to cut to earlier occasions, as well as the days when Holm was Martin Freeman, whereupon Ian McKellen's Gandalf invites him around the mission and introduces the baker's dozen dwarves (a quick shot for each) which is talking about the knowledge. We're pronouncing Thorin since it looks written lower, incidentally. We feel we're in proclaiming that Tolkien may have had us say "Taur-een". But anyway, whatever.Plus there's a turn for your sinister ultimately that lot, with Thorin and also the troop singing an eerie song in regards to the Misty Hills, once we receive glimpses of Galadriel (Cate Blanchett) and Gandalf at Rivendell (we didn't place Elrond though), and Gandalf inside the trolls' stone circle, before some glorious wide-shots of latest Zealand Middle Earth landscapes, a bit of mustering and Sting-waving (the sword, not Gordon Sumner), some troll-fighting, and a holiday to a cave system where Smeagol pads his Precious, and miracles this type of Baggins is...OK, if i was not before, now we're excited, and there's another bloody year to attend! Still, we're sure you will see plenty more to tide us over, most notoriously from the first poster, in formats.Not just a single standby time with the word "Hobbit", you'll find. Just "An Unforeseen Journey, within the director in the Master In The Rings trilogy". But it's nothing beats nobody knows how it's talking about.Obtain the completely new problem ofEmpirefor lots of our very own adventures round the set.The Hobbit: An Unforeseen Journeyis on December 14, 2012.

Don't Cry For Albert Brooks, Says Best Awards E-Mail Ever

It’s the little things that get us through one otherwise interminable awards season after another: Oscar-nominee trading cards, #ConsiderUggie, The Daldry… That kind of stuff. But perhaps the most remarkable development of the current awards cycle sprung immediately, kind of miraculously from the previous most remarkable development of the current awards cycle. And it all benefits Drive scene-stealer (and recent SAG Award snubbee) Albert Brooks. Like a cool, calm yet furious avenger sauntering into a room full of showgirls with a hammer in one hand and a bullet in the other, a rep for Drive casually sent along the following dispatch this morning. I share it in its entirety not only for context’s sake, but as a brass-balled example of the best that awards publicity has to offer — transcending unmistakably bad news by saying, in a nutshell: “Yes, we know Mr. Brooks was snubbed. No, we’re not worried. Here’s why. You can’t stop what’s coming. Especially you, Christopher Plummer.” Whatever this guy is paid, it’s not enough: Good Afternoon Friends, We appreciate all of your continued support of DRIVE and coverage of the film, especially following this morning’s SAG noms. Thank you for all of your shout-outs to Albert Brooks on Twitter and in your analyses of the SAG nominations in regards to his not being recognized today, but we remain confident that the Supporting Actor race still boils down to a two-man showdown between Albert and Christopher Plummer. If you will recall, Marcia Gay Harden was not nominated for the SAG in 2000 after her win for Best Supporting Actress at the NYFCC, and went on to win the Oscar for her critically-lauded performance. Albert Brooks has been the critical favorite and consensus pick for Best Supporting Actor so far in 2011 for DRIVE, so let’s take today in stride, especially following the onslaught of his multiple critics wins for Best Supporting Actor this week. Brooks has scored wins and nominations everywhere from the NY Film Critics Circle to Las Vegas to San Diego to Boston, yet inexplicably missed out at SAG. We expect that tomorrow the Hollywood Foreign Press will show Albert some love and that eventually the Academy voters will follow the lead of critics across the country and nominate Albert as Best Supporting Actor. For a little more perspective on the SAG race, please note the list below of the 19 men nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category since the awards’ inception in 1994 who have NOT gone on to be nominated for the Oscar: Kevin Bacon - Murder in the First (95) Don Cheadle - Devil in a Blue Dress (95) Hank Azaria - Birdcage (96) Nathan Lane - Birdcage (96) Billy Connolly - Mrs. Brown (97) Ned Kelly - Waking Ned Devine (98) Chris Cooper - American Beauty (99) Gary Oldman - Contender (00) Hayden Christiansen - Life as a House (01) Alfred Molina - Frida (02) Dennis Quaid - Far from Heaven (02) Chris Cooper - Seabiscuit (03) James Garner - Notebook (04) Freddie highmore - Finding Neverland (04) Don Cheadle - Crash (05) Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed (06) Tommy Lee Jones - No Country for Old Men (07) Dev Patel - Slumdog Millionaire (08) Thank you all for your continued support of DRIVE and Albert Brooks! Swoon. No, really — thank you. EARLIER: SAG Award Nominations: Help Soars; Michael Fassbender, Albert Brooks Snubbed

MPAAs Chris Dodd: Experts Look At SOPA As Censorship Crazy And False

MPAA leader Chris Dodd today lashed out at experts of SOPA and PIPA antipiracy bills who associate the suggested legislation with corporate censorship and also the repressive Internet guidelines of foreign government authorities. “It’s an crazy and false comparison,” Dodd stated inside a speech in the Center for American Progress, based on reviews around the Hill and Broadcasting & Cable websites. Hollywood is professional-Internet. We stand with individuals who strongly oppose foreign government authorities that will unilaterally block websites and therefore deny the free flow of knowledge and speech. So I wish to allow it to be obvious right in the start our combat content thievery isn't a combat technology. It's a combat crooks. Experts from the Houses Stop Online Piracy Act and also the Senates Safeguard IP ACT contend the legislation intends Internet speech and lacks sufficient due process. These competitors include Google, other websites, Wikipedia along with a significant chunk of Plastic Valley and electronic devices companies. “Contrary to piracy apologists, the operators of those fraudulent sites aren’t overzealous film buffs or political activists creating a statement about freedom of knowledge,” Dodd stated. “They are crooks, basically: they don’t innovate, they don’t stick to manufacturing standards, plus they certainly don’t pay taxes around the arises from their ripoffs.” Dodd referred to the entertainment industrys position like a battle to preserve good jobs. The galleries arent the only real ones affected, he stressed. Some 95,000 companies and also the people they employ are hurt by digital thievery. It is not about star salaries, he stated, however the $55,000 what is for any generally unionized movie and television worker, along with the “local lumber yard delivering the fabric, catering service feeding the cast and crew and vehicle car dealership supplying the automobiles.” The Home Judiciary Committee intends to margin SOPA on Thursday. Its sponsor Judiciary Chairman Lamar Cruz (R-Texas), just circulated a modified version he states addresses a number of its experts concerns. Competitors intend to introduce their very own bill tomorrow. The Senate has moved PIPA forward toward floor debate.

Addiction Incorporated

A Variance Films discharge of an Acappella Pictures presentation of the Dune Road Films production. Created by Charles Evans Junior. Executive producer, Charmaine Parcero. Co-producers, Devorah Devries, Stephen Mitchell. Directed by Charles Evans Junior.With: Victor DeNoble, Paul Mele, Russ Herman, David A. Kessler, Michael C. Moore, Keith Summa, Henry Waxman, Steven C. Parrish.Potent docu "Addiction Incorporated" stories the lengthy and tortured road traveled to determine federal regulating the tobacco industry -- an underlying cause finally won largely because of the thought that some producers lengthy had proof cigarettes were addictive, despite decades of public denial. Producer Charles Evans Junior.'s directorial debut finds an engrossing suspense position within the participation of Victor DeNoble, an idealistic researcher-switched-whistleblower whose covered up corporate research grew to become the bombshell catalyst for the reason that struggle. Strong reviews should assist the pic in the being approved run beginning 12 ,. 14 at Gotham's Film Forum, along with other metropolitan areas following in The month of january. The genial DeNoble, the main interviewee among many here, would be a working-class East Coaster considered none-too-vibrant until a university course motivated the invention that undiscovered dyslexia have been hampering his academic performance all along. By 1976, he'd gained a doctoral in experimental psychology and was employed by Philip Morris 4 years later like a senior drug investigator. Told, "We do not kill people nicotine does," at his meeting, DeNoble figured he'd nabbed an aspiration publish giving healthy corporate income for science that really achieved positive results people. He and fellow investigator Paul Mele were basically assigned with looking for less dangerous options to nicotine as cigarette elements. However, when their lab-rat studies revealed not just that nicotine was patently addicting, but another element (Acetaldehyde) even much more, the organization figured it might have more bang because of its buck by boosting instead of lowering the dosage from the latter. An incriminating results paper planned for scholarly publication got yanked pressurized. Purchased to eliminate remaining rats along with other proof of his findings, DeNoble ended up being abruptly fired. Ten years later within the mid-1990's, ABC started sniffing at around gossips the tobacco industry -- still intensely fighting off government regulation -- had really labored secretly to keep addictive levels while denying such addiction been around. The used legal cases, spying on Food and drug administration researchers, political palm-greasing along with other tactics to help keep the lid about this explosive truth. But when Congress launched DeNoble from his former employer's airtight discretion agreement, the kitty was from the bag. When the chronicle reaches industry-shaming Congressional proceedings along with other still-familiar occasions, it develops less exciting, if perhaps since the earlier parts, casting DeNoble as humble protagonist inside a then-secret fight between personal ethics and corporate malfeasance, offer such compelling real-existence drama. Pic's most adventuresome leap is using impressive, even poignant animated sequences by which anthropomorphized rats go through the levels and finally fatal lows of substance addiction. Set up is first-rate down the road.Camera (color, HD), Peter Nelson, Igor Martinovic editors, Kristen Huntley, Jay Keuper music, Samite Mulondo graphics, Seth Brau animation, the Studio New york city, Cartoon Saloon, Aniboom re-recording mixers, Glenfield Payne, Reilly Steele. Examined on DVD, Bay Area, November. 6, 2011. Running time: 102 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Exclusive: Chuck Lorre Talks Two and a Half Men's Turnaround and His "Painful" Year

Two and a Half Men When all hell broke loose this year on Two and a Half Men, and it was clear that his relationship with star Charlie Sheen had turned toxic, executive producer Chuck Lorre came up with a way to end the madness."I offered to quit the show last winter," Lorre, 59, reveals for the first time. "I said, 'Listen, if for some reason I'm now the Antichrist I'm happy to leave. It's not in my interest to stop the show, and I certainly don't want to put all these people out of work. Keep going. Get another guy. Don't stop on my account."Not only did Sheen take a thinly veiled anti-Semitic jab at Lorre, but he also began regularly vilifying his boss in interviews, calling the sitcom hitmaker a "stupid, stupid man" and "a little maggot" - as well as plenty of things that can't be printed here. "I can't work with a guy who has decided that he hates my guts," Lorre says he told the network and studio.Such a move wouldn't have been unprecedented. Stars and producers frequently butt heads, and it's the producers whom often end up taking a hike. Lorre, who would have still kept an ownership stake in Two and a Half Men, knew that game well, having created and later departed Grace Under Fire after run-ins with star Brett Butler (who, like Sheen, struggled with addiction).But this was different. To put it bluntly, as Lorre, CBS and Warner Bros. TV watched Sheen quickly spiral out of control, they were concerned that he might die - and they weren't going to let him do it on their watch."[The studio and network] chose to make a moral decision as opposed to a financial one," Lorre says. "But people were really frightened that they were signing off on what could have had devastating consequences. This was not a game. This was drug addiction writ large. This was big-time cocaine and in his own words, an 'epic drug run' that could have ended with either his death or someone else's."Fortunately, that didn't happen. Still, Lorre says, "It was a painful year. I'll be sorting it out for a long time."Chances are you had never heard of Chuck Lorre before this year, but you likely watched his shows - Men, The Big Bang Theory and Mike & Molly. Lorre has built up an unprecedented comedy empire, making CBS a dominant Monday-night force and Warner Bros. TV a big-time supplier of sitcoms in syndication.In 2011, Lorre had what may be the most successful fall of his storied career. After years of being snubbed by the TV Academy, The Big Bang Theory finally earned an Emmy nomination for outstanding comedy. Plus, Big Bang star Jim Parsons collected his second best comedy actor Emmy, and Mike & Molly star Melissa McCarthy, who became a bona fide superstar this summer thanks to the feature Bridesmaids, scored a best comedy actress Emmy.Beyond the Emmys, Lorre's biggest coup this year was the successful reinvention of Two and a Half Men. After Sheen was fired in March, CBS convinced a reluctant Lorre to give the show an extreme makeover. "I thought, why not find out if we can do it. If we fail, what have we failed at? Making a sitcom? Then it became exciting. We got to do something none of us ever dreamed of doing: We got to end a series and start a new series in 20 minutes."Lorre first cast Ashton Kutcher as a hotshot Hollywood actor, straight out of an Entourage-like world, but later decided a character like that would be too much in the mold of Sheen's hedonistic jingle writer Charlie Harper - and he was done with that. "It was time to come out of the darkness," he says. "Maybe for my own heath and welfare, I wanted to write a character who was coming from the light."It's working: Two and a Half Men, starring Kutcher as bighearted Internet billionaire Walden Schmidt, opened to 32.8 million viewers (including seven days of DVR use), and continues as TV's most-watched comedy (and No. 2 scripted series overall, behind only NCIS). Thanks to the show's big open this year, Men is up 41% among adults 18-49 from a year ago. "Ashton slipped into it so seamlessly," says co-star Jon Cryer."When Chuck comes in and talks on a set, everyone listens," Kutcher says. "He's been around it enough and seen it enough that he knows what's going to work and he knows what's not going to work. Everybody respects that."Most recently, Lorre - whose credits also include Dharma & Greg and Roseanne - was named to the TV Academy Hall of Fame. And after years of almost single-handedly propping up the multicamera sitcom (shot on a stage in front of an audience), Lorre is witnessing a comedy comeback this season that he helped initiate.McCarthy credits Lorre's ability to pick the right team of producers, which includes Men's Lee Aronsohn, Big Bang's Bill Prady and Mike & Molly's Mark Roberts. "That's the right way to run something: Hire people [who] you know can do it and let them do what they do." Adds Parsons: "It's this musical ear that he has, this understanding of the rhythms and the beats that make up a 22-minute TV show."Lorre also credits the natural conflict that comes with working with the same group of writers for such a long time. "These are passionate, creative people; there are no pushovers," he says. "Out of the friction comes something better than what would happen if I had autonomy. Out of that cauldron of dissent comes a better show."Cryer says he wishes he knew Lorre's secret formula. "Then I would be the most popular sitcom producer on TV," he jokes. But as he helped keep the sitcom alive during the genre's lean years, Lorre says he never intended to dominate the form."There was no master plan," Lorre says. "It just worked out that way. It's not about how many cameras you have. It's about the characters - are they interesting? Do you want Dharma to be with Greg, do you want Mike and Molly to make it, do you want Sheldon to find happiness, whatever that might be?"Leaning back in his spacious office on the Warner Bros. lot - where, like one big comedy factory, his three shows take up an entire building - Lorre says he agreed to finally speak about his tumultuous year in order to help promote his three shows. But it's clear that his fallout with Sheen continues to weigh heavily on Lorre - and subtly addressing it via quips on his famous production vanity cards (which weren't well-received by Sheen) wasn't enough of a release.In hindsight, Lorre says he regrets not quitting the show after Sheen was accused of holding a knife to his wife, Brooke Mueller, on Christmas in 2009. "When he started attacking people with knives, that's it," Lorre says. "That should have been it. I should have walked. That's unthinkable. No more. I'm done. But for some reason I thought that because she was willing to forgive him... we could emerge from this fiasco and be stronger and healthier."At the same time, even as Sheen slipped up, he was able to hide much of his substance abuse behind his signature laid-back façade. "He always reminded me of Dean Martin," Lorre says. "Charlie is the epitome of cool and he made it look effortless. People never gave him enough credit for how skillful he was because he made it look so easy. There's that element of Charlie that's admirable and he was the kind of guy you wanted to hang out with. He was a special guy. But special guys are not immune to drug addiction."When Sheen wound up in the Cedars Sinai emergency room after another bender last season, it came just months after he allegedly trashed a room at NY's Plaza Hotel. The actor's problems, which he had long kept off the set, were finally impacting the job. "Last January and February it was not working anymore," Lorre says. "You couldn't do that much cocaine and work. It was heartbreaking to be around here last year."Cryer recounts how tension began to fill the set. "It became clear that he was not sober, and we weren't sure how hard he was trying to be sober anymore," says the Men star, who still hasn't talked to Sheen since he left the show. "We were used to things being just a little off balance for many months. You could tell his personality was changing... Finally toward the end it was undeniable."Lorre still wanted to believe that Sheen could turn things around, and concocted an idea to produce four more episodes once the actor got out of rehab. "We were going to have a 20-episode [instead of 24-episode] season. And I thought that given what happened in Aspen and the court case, and then what happened at the Plaza on Thanksgiving and then the Cedars Sinai emergency room trip, 20 instead of 24 was pretty good."For Lorre, the decision to give Sheen the benefit of the doubt was also deeply personal: "Sobriety is a big part of my life, and it's been that way for almost 13 years," he says. "I'm eternally grateful I've been able to find this in my life."But instead, Sheen went rogue: He refused treatment and began trashing his boss. "I embarrassed him in front of his children and the world by healing at a pace that this un-evolved mind cannot process," Sheen famously said in one rant. "I've spent, I think, close to the last decade I don't know effortlessly and magically converted your tin can into pure gold." (Sheen declined comment for this story.)Sheen's attacks on Lorre's sobriety particularly stung deep. "That broke my heart," he says. "I thought we were on the same road together. I mean, we held hands and prayed when his sons were born prematurely."It was pretty much "all hurtful," Lorre adds. "There was a great deal of grief and anger about how that all went down. But my intent from the very beginning was I didn't want to look the other way." Says Cryer: "It's a guy with a problem lashing out at the people trying to help him. Anyone who has had a substance abuser in their lives knows that's what happens sometimes. But it happened over the Internet and blew up huge into this crazy thing, and it was horrible to be a part of."Production continued on Big Bang and Mike & Molly, and Parsons remembers that "work just kept going on, and things were kind of unchanged - which was frankly, looking back now, a remarkable moment in our four-and-a-half year history." Still, he says the Sheen story was inescapable. "I had to get off the treadmill four times one day and change the channel because it was something about the story and I was just so tired of it. There was no joy to be had from our end... I did feel certainly a real protectiveness for Chuck. I don't think anyone would have blamed him if he took off and went to a beach."Soon after being fired, Sheen filed suit against Lorre, CBS and Warner Bros. TV, accusing them of breaching his contract. Lorre says he was taken back by the allegations that he stood to gain if Two and a Half Men was canceled. "It was preposterous," he says. "I have a vested interest in the show. I want it to go on forever." (The suit was later settled.)By the summer, media attention had turned to how Two and a Half Men would explain Sheen's exit (it turns out, Charlie Harper would be killed off) and Kutcher's arrival. "We were all like little kids here back in June, writing the show, trying to create a brand new series starring Ashton Kutcher," Lorre says. "It was fun."Then, as Emmy night arrived, word leaked that the TV Academy had agreed to give Sheen a platform as a surprise Emmy presenter. Lorre and Warner Bros. TV strongly pressed the TV Academy and Fox (which carried this tear's Emmy telecast) to reconsider."I thought it was really disrespectful to the nominees," Lorre says. "That's their moment, and it was somehow undermined by this melodrama that was happening on stage. I don't have any regrets about making some phone calls and saying, 'Really? You're going to do this?'" Fox and Emmys producer Mark Burnett didn't back down, and a subdued Sheen wound up awkwardly handing the best comedy actor Emmy to Big Bang star Jim Parsons.Despite what happened this year, Cryer says he's still on "Team Charlie" - "We all really loved working with the guy," he says - and Lorre says he hopes that Sheen is well and able to be there for his kids."The man was my friend," he says. "I cared for him deeply. We had a great time. We succeeded beyond our wildest dreams. Sometimes I'll watch some of the reruns and I'll go, 'That was really funny. That was worth watching.' I'm proud of what we did."But Lorre's focus now is keeping Men 2.0 alive for years to come. "I have to be grateful," he says. "We got the show back. Everybody's working. I'm eternally grateful we didn't walk away last winter and wrap it."The future is contingent on Kutcher renewing his one-year deal, but the actor hints that it's very likely. "Right now I'm still enjoying it," Kutcher says. "And as long as I'm enjoying something, I'll stick with it."Cryer, for one, hopes that his new co-star renews his deal. "What's been great is coming up with an entirely new comedic dynamic with Ashton," Cryer says. "He's such a different actor. Charlie would sort of amble in, run a scene once or twice and he would nail it. With Ashton we rehearse things, he improves on it and we find new stuff all the time, and it's a great breath of fresh air. I'm enjoying that process. The show already has had more sentiment invested in the friendship between Alan and Walden than we ever did in the old version of the show, and that's fun."And who can blame them for wanting to keep the party going? "I was in Borneo and people told me how much they love Two and a Half Men," marvels Lorre. "It's humbling to see the reach of American TV. When I take it for granted it will be time to quit. But not yet."Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Guns N Roses, Chili All kinds of peppers In Rock Hall

First Released: December 7, 2011 8:56 AM EST Credit: Getty Images NY, N.Y. -- Caption Slash gets to the Classic Rock N Roll of Honor in the Park Lane Hotel on November 3, 2008 in LondonWelcome towards the Rock 'n roll Hall of Fame, Guns N Roses. The seminal rock-band from the late eighties and early 90s leads the category of 2012. Also making the cut would be the Beastie Boys the In Demand Chili All kinds of peppers the late singer/songwriter Laura Nyro Donovan and also the Small Faces/Faces, which incorporated Fishing rod Stewart and Moving Gemstones guitarist Ronnie Wood. The inductees were introduced on Wednesday. Nyro may be the only female act to really make it the hall handed down Donna Summer time, Joan Jett and also the Blackhearts, Heart and Rufus with Chaka Khan. All were around the ballot. The Rock 'n roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony is going to be locked in Cleveland, in which the rock hall relies, on April 14. Copyright 2011 through the Connected Press. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Fox News: 'Muppets' Trying To Brainwash Your Children!

It has happen as a bit of the shock, but it's only good for you to know you have been "indoctrinated" with the Muppets. Yes, around Jim Henson's crew of affectionate misfits might have came out to require only to train children the best way to depend on "Sesame Street" or to be laugh with G-rated humor, it calculates that Kermit and crew were lots of dirty, Commie pinkos all along. Another evening on Fox Business News' "Stay with the cash,Inch host Eric Bolling needed for the airwaves to produce the record straight: "The Muppets" is just another entry in the extended string of Hollywood propaganda produced solely in relation to turning impressionable children from the lower-trodden oil barons. As noted with the Hollywood Reporter, media watchdog group Media Matters needed offense to Mr. Bolling's stance round the furry, Marxist puppets. Apparently, the crowd did less than accept Fox News' mentioning the apparent "liberal prejudice" of films including speaking frogs and bears-switched-comics. What else can anybody remove in the movie featuring an oil magnate since the primary antagonist? "Is liberal Hollywood using class warfare to brainwash our kids,In . asked for Bolling, getting an entirely straight face. "Do you know the Occupy Wall Street Muppets?" According to Bolling's guest, Serta Rainor of Media Research Center, "There has to be!In . Rainor handled to convey this without laughing, going onto explain the content of "The Muppets" is like the liberal message of "The Matrix." This conversation between actual, human grownups that are paid out being on television ongoing with fellow Fox News host Andrea Tantaros. "It's brainwashing. I merely wish liberals could leave kids alone," she mentioned. Tantaros then ongoing to request why an imaginary, felt character animated having a person's hands couldn't can get on food stamps whether or not this was depriving. That actually happened. Clearly, the humor from the conversation where wealthy people request why anybody would vilify wealthy people happening on the program referred to as "Stay With The CashInch was absolutely lost on everyone involved. Just what a huge shock to uncover that through all the years, thinking these little figures desired to train me about friendship, the Muppets were really just trying to indoctrinate me in to a furry Red-colored-colored Military. Et tu, Mike the Novelty helmet?

Hailee Steinfeld Joins Cast of Summit's 'Ender's Game'

Noel Vasquez/Getty Images for ExtraPaul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman Paul Reubens, creator of the Pee-wee Herman character, has signed with WME for representation in all areas.our editor recommendsPaul Reubens Reveals Status of Judd Apatow's Forthcoming Pee-wee Herman MovieScream Awards 2011: Pee-Wee Herman Talks About Receiving the Visionary Honor (Video)The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway: Film Review The actor's iconic character has been the subject of two films,Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) and Big Top Pee-wee (1988); and the Saturday morning CBS television show,Pee-wee's Playhouse. The cult children's TV show aired in the late 1980s and included characters played by the latePhil Hartman and Laurence Fishburne. PHOTOS: Paul Reubens, Kal Penn at 2011 Scream Awards Reubens relaunched Pee-wee in 2010 with a series of live performances, including a stint at Club Nokia at L.A. Live and later on Broadway. The Pee-wee Herman Show was broadcast as an HBO special in March and garnered three Emmy nominations. Reubens is developing a new Pee-wee Herman film, which is being produced by Judd Apatow and is set up at Universal. Reubens also has acted in non-Pee-wee roles. His film credits include Batman Returns, Blow and Reno 911!: Miami. Reubens also starred in Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime and has guest starred on 30 Rock and Pushing Daisies. He is managed by Vie Entertainment. Email: Daniel.Miller@THR.com Twitter: @DanielNMiller PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Scream Awards 2011: Red Carpet and Show Photos Judd Apatow Paul Reubens

Keith Olbermann Will No Longer Engage With His Twitter Followers

Keith Olbermannis going on a Twitter silence of sorts.our editor recommendsKeith Olbermann Calls Canada's Rob Ford 'Worst Person In The World'Keith Olbermann Mocks Newsweek's '150% Insane' Michele Bachmann Cover (Video) Keith Olbermann Slams 'Very Stupid' Sarah Palin, Jokes About Anthony Weiner The Current TV host announced Wednesday via his Twitter stream that he no longer would be engaging with followers via the site's "at replies." PHOTOS: Hollywood's Twitter Feuds Following a Monday interview with comedian Richard Lewis in which the duo broke down the Republican field of presidential candidates, Olbermann on Tuesday had a tense exchange with a follower he thought insulted Lewis, ultimately blocking her. STORY: Keith Olbermann Breaks Silence on MSNBC Exit; Could Earn $100M at Current TV After the follower blogged about the exchange late Tuesday, Olbermann's followers took to Twitter to question him about the exchange, prompting him to declare that he'd no longer respond to his at replies. "I'm more confused than anything else right now, but there's some undeniable sadness and anger," the blogger wrote. "Mr. Olbermann, I think what you did was extremely petty. Not just blocking me but blocking anyone who you construe as disagreeing with you or daring to question you." PHOTOS: Keith Olbermann's Famous Feuds "Ok, my thanks to everybody, but life is brief. TFN I won't be replying to tweets. #ShowPlugs, photos, Baseball Nerd updates will continue," he tweeted. PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Keith Olbermann's Famous Feuds Related Topics Keith Olbermann