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Josh Hopkins Is Cougar Town's Grayson departing Jules? Josh Hopkins has became a member of the cast of Lady Buddies, Kari Lizer 's NBC pilot. Pilot Season: Obtain the scoop! Within the comedy, two female buddies, Nicole (Andrea Anders), who apparently has got the perfect existence, and Jen, who can't appear to have it together, can't do without one another. Hopkins will have the husband of Nicole. As formerly introduced, Rachel Dratch and Danny Comden will even star. Lady Buddies is within second position to Cougar Town, meaning if ABC renews the flagging comedy, Hopkins will remain in the cul-p-sac crew. Meanwhile, Hopkins will quickly guest-star on In Plain Sight. Exclusive: Cougar Town's Josh Hopkins to romance Mary on In Plain Sight Cougar Town creator Bill Lawrence taunted this news earlier Tuesday. "Letting my cast do aircraft pilots in second position," he tweeted. "Wishing they get parts, then need to be changed (like Damon Wayans Junior. Happy Being/New Girl... I am still betting we'll survive, which pilot is going to be screwed. But I am an positive guy." The Brand New Adventures of Old Christine' Lizer will write and executive-produce.

Ehren Kruger Writing Yeti Adventure

Disney's growing the Matterhorn ideaDisney's on-going lust to show its famous amusement park points of interest into motion picture thrill-rides continues unabated, but among the embryonic projects bubbling away in the development lab test tube seems to become changing from its source. Back last June, word broke the Mouse House would be focusing on a Matterhorn movie. However Transformers: Dark From The Moon author Ehren Kruger is aboard to absorb it a brand new direction.The script will support the fundamental idea of the Matterhorn idea, which Jason Dean Hall authored, and which sees five youthful adventure searchers attracted towards the Alps for mysterious reasons and needing to face off against yetis that guard a harmful secret. However the closer connections using the ride itself is going to be snipped (not too we figured it might stay everything in keeping with the initial anyway).The studio is clearly thinking that one has legs, and it has hired documentary director John Beletic to consider his first crack in a movie. And boosting the adrenaline level is going to be production company Brain Farm Cinema, that has experience shooting extreme sports.Kruger, ever a guy sought after, also offers a couple of other films pushing their way through development, including one he co-authored with Bradley Camping known as Invertigo which has been acquired by The new sony and also the small few fantasizing new methods of robots to stay in disguise, then hit/shoot/smash one another for the following Transformers effort.

Cinematographer Ric Waite dies

Ric Waite, cinematographer of films including "Footloose," "48 Several hrs.," "Red-colored-colored Beginning" and "The Extended Riders," died Saturday, Feb. 18, in La of natural causes. He was 78. For his be employed in television, Waite acquired four Emmy nominations, plus a win in 1976 for your NBC miniseries "Captains as well as the Nobleman." Waite began just like a still digital digital photographer. Within the NY City photography studio he possessed, he did fashion and advertising use magazines including GQ, Style, Glamour, 17 and Playboy and entrepreneurs for instance Jaguar and DuPont. He gone after La in 1970 and began behave as a cinematographer. Waite initially labored in television, lensing cases of series including "Emergency!," "Police Story" and "Capital of scotland- Angels" additionally to several telepics, including "Tail Gunner Joe" (he received an Emmy nom), "The Existence and Murder in the Kingfish" (another Emmy nom), "Dead of Evening" and "Amateur Evening within the Dixie Bar and Grill." He acquired his final Emmy nom for just about any later effort, the 1996 TNT telepic "Andersonville." Waite effectively moved on to bigscreen make use of the considerably famous Walter Hill Western "The Extended Riders" in 1979. Among the features he shot were Hill's "Brewster's Millions," starring Richard Pryor and John Chocolate Carl Reiner's "Summer season Rental," with Chocolate Nicholas Meyer's "Volunteers," starring Tom Hanks and Chocolate "Cobra," starring Sylvester Stallone Chris Columbus' "Adventures in Babysitting" and diverse films starring Steven Seagal. Richard Waite was produced in Sheboygan, Wisc. After secondary school he grew to become part of the atmosphere Pressure and travelled while using Photo Intelligence group. Waite was area of the American Society of Cinematographers. In 2002 he gone after the Colorado area, where he trained cinematography and lighting within the Colorado U. Film School. Lately Waite shot the movies "Best Ribs aroundInch and "Assassins' Code," which he was set as director of photography round the film "Legacy," that's in pre-production. Waite is managed to get by his wife of 48 years, Judy a boy together with a daughter. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com

Steven Spielberg talks Tintin 2

Total Film lately swept up with Steven Spielberg, and that we got him to spill the beans around the approaching Tintin follow up.Spielberg directed the very first instalment from the performance-capture/animated undertake Hergé's spirited comic series, with Peter Jacskon becoming producer. The happy couple decided on the trilogy, and also the ending from the Secret From The Unicorn certainly left things open for any follow up.What exactly can Spielberg inform us about Tintin 2?"Peter [Jackson]'s doing the work. I needed to get it done, but Peter needs to because we designed a deal. I stated, 'I'll direct the first, you direct the 2nd one.'"And Peter, obviously, can do it immediately after he finishes photography around the Hobbit. He'll go directly into the 31, a 3 week period of performance capture."We are not telling the planet what books we are basing the 2nd movie on yet."But did not producer Kathleen Kennedy say it will likely be The Calculus Affair?"We've not made the decision that yet. She's tossing a monkey wrench to your story! Maybe. I love The Calculus Affair. So it may be.InchWe've completed a tale outline now. There exists a author onto it. I am simply not proclaiming what it's. It will likely be several book, but a maximum of two."The Adventures Of Tintin: The Key From The Unicorn arrives on DVD and Blu-ray on 19 March 2012.For additional from Steven Spielberg, obtain the new problem of Total Film magazine, which hits newsstands on Thursday 16 Feb.And, it is a special interactive problem this month, meaning that exist great extra content with the free Blippar application. Browse the mag for full particulars! Click the link a subscription to Total Film magazine.Click the link to obtain Total Film magazine on iPad and apple iphone from Apple Newsstand.

MPAA Adds Four To Washington Staff

The MPAA’s Washington D.C. office has fleshed out its staff with four new positions, the organization’s chairman/CEO Chris Dodd announced today. Alex Swartsel, Brian Cohen and Lauren Pastarnack have joined the MPAAs government affairs team and Kate Bedingfield has joined the communications team. Dodd said Pastarnack’s “experience working with the crucial and often complex issues that come through the Senate Judiciary Committee has already made her an enormous asset.” He also cited Cohen’s “vast network of state and local officials from his work at Immigration & Customs Enforcement” in the MPAA’s fight against online content theft. Dodd described Swartsel asa “refined communicator and an accomplished strategist” and he said Bedingfield’s recent “experience as a White House communications advisor is invaluable.”

Disney fields 'Moneyball' author's 'Coach'

LewisDisney is rounding the bases with "Moneyball" author Michael Lewis, not only optioning feature rights to his "Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life," but also giving the best-selling scribe the chance to pen the script.Gil Netter, who teamed with the author on the Oscar-winning tale "The Blind Side," is producing through his Gil Netter Prods. banner, which has a first-look deal with Disney. Based on Lewis' book of the same name, "Coach" tells the true story of Lewis' journey to rediscover his influential baseball mentor, Coach Fitz, whose methods had a tremendous impact on his generation of athletes and leaders."There are teachers with a rare ability to enter a child's mind," Lewis wrote of his former coach in a 2004 NY Times article. "It's as if their ability to get there at all gives them the right to stay forever."Published by W.W. Norton & Company in 2005, "Coach" marks one of several Lewis projects getting Hollywood treatment. The author's groundbreaking book "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" was developed by Sony Pictures and has grossed over $100 million worldwide since September. The baseball drama about Oakland A's GM Billy Beane is nommed for six Oscars, including a Best Actor nod for Brad Pitt.Lewis also has the financial tale "Liar's Poker" in development at Warner Bros. as well as the Plan B-produced economic pic "The Big Short" in the works at Paramount. Currently a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, Lewis has also written for The NY Times Magazine, Bloomberg and The New Republic.He is repped by CAA. Contact Stuart Oldham at stuart.oldham@variety.com

Pilot Season: Kevin Sausage to Star in Fox's Murderer Drama From Kevin Williamson

Kevin Sausage Allow the Six Levels of Kevin Sausage extend to TV. The Golden Globe champion will star in Kevin Williamson's Fox drama pilot in regards to a massive murderer plot, TVGuide.com has learned. Sausage will have a upon the market FBI profiler who will get attracted in whenever a heinous murderer uses technology to put together a cult of serial murders. This news was initially reported by Deadline. Obtain the scoop around the latest pilot season news There is however a catch: The growing season is going to be shorter. It appears as if the actor, 53, is only going to sign up for 15 episodes per season, that is considerably under the typical 22. Sausage has not were built with a regular series gig since Guiding Light within the 1980s. He's directed a number of instances of his wife Kyra Sedgwick's TNT drama The Closer. The up to now untitled murderer drama will mark coming back to more adult fare for Williamson, who authored the Scream movie franchise and much more lately co-produced The CW's Vampire Journals and Secret Circle. He authored the pilot, which Marcos Siega will direct.