'Snowtown' high on five wins at first Aussie Acad awards

SYDNEY -- Real-crime drama "Snowtown" led the kudo wins but it was feelgood local hit "Red Dog" that fetched top honors as best pic at the inaugural Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts awards at the Sydney Opera House on Tuesday night."Red Dog" was the biggest local pic of last year at the box office, with a boffo $22.3 million haul. "Snowtown" took home best director for Justin Kurzel; actor for Daniel Henshall, as serial killer John Bunting; supporting actress for Louise Harris, one of the many non-pros tapped for the film; adapted screenplay kudo for Shaun Grant, and best sound and editing.Kurzel praised the non-pros and the "synchronicity" of meeting Harris in a shopping mall.He added that, although the pic was criticized Down Under for opening old wounds, it was being well received internationally."It was just released in the UK and it did really well over there and it seems to be a story that people overseas find really compelling and different," Kurzel said.Pic opens Stateside in March.Judy Davis snagged best actress for "The Eye of the Storm" while Hugo Weaving won best supporting actor for "Oranges and Sunshine."AACTA was created last summer to replace the Australian Film Institute, which had repped the industry for over 50 years.The AACTA awards replaced the AFI awards and introduced a new international component that was presented in Los Angeles on Friday evening by AACTA prexy Geoffrey Rush.Rush was on hand for the Sydney kudocast as was AACTA ambassador Cate Blanchett. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Exclusive Video: Extreme Couponing: Evening time Madness Assumes Black Friday

Extreme Couponing: Evening time Madness And you also thought the woman who pepper-spread people on Black Friday was intense... TLC's new special Extreme Couponing: Evening time Madness, follows four super savers who navigate the finest shopping day of year: Black Friday. Inside the exclusive sneak look below, Washington shopper Angelique lines up several hours early... despite being three several days pregnant. Now that's intense. See the video of Evening time Madness, airing Sunday, The month of the month of january 29 at 10/9c.

'Prometheus' Worldwide Poster Looks Very Familiar

A completely new worldwide poster for "Prometheus" remains released, but also for people people wanting it could give some experience to the movie's many mysteries, it's some a disappointment. This can be virtually the identical poster since the one released within the united states . States, although showing just a little really that giant stone mind that we view floating around inside the marketing material. AllNewz, an Italian news site, gets the poster. No less than that which you might take in the consistency between these two posters is the large mind could have a significant role to have fun playing the movie. See the new worldwide poster for "Prometheus" following a jump. Same goes with "Prometheus" an "Alien" prequel or perhaps is not it? If there's anything we've learned inside the several days just before the flick's June 21 release is always that we will not uncover ahead of time. The essential plot in the movie states it's of a team of scientists and those that set to locate methods to "life's ultimate mystery," and finished up finding what "may be our finish" rather. Film author Damon Lindelof ongoing to tease the is-it-or-isn't-it character in the movie in the recent interview. Ultimately, he mentioned that fans might take the promotion in the movie with the idea to imply it is a prequel or it stands alone. "If perhaps that individuals didnt have to be so mysterious relating to this but mystery might be an optimistic factor as extended as you've the items to aid it,Inch he mentioned. "In this particular situation, when the movie arrives, most likely probably the most visionary filmmakers inside the good status for cinema will probably be putting his cards available and Im just kind of standing behind him with my arms folded. What's your stance on "Prometheus"? Reveal inside the comments section below or on Twitter!

Cinemax Delays Treme's Third Season to Fall

Treme Treme fans will have to wait longer to discover what Antoine, LaDonna, Toni as well as the relaxation in the crew are around. Cinemax has pressed the drama's Season 3 premiere back in the usual April berth to fall, The Completely New Orleans Occasions-Picayune reviews. True Blood's Chris Coy moves to Treme Pointless was presented with for your move, but Cinemax recently axed several original series that broadcast inside the fall, including Hung, Bored to Dying and the way making it in the united states. That leaves more than enough room round the pay cable network's schedule this fall aside from honours magnet Boardwalk Empire, which frequently premieres in September. The Ten-episode third season of Treme is presently being created.

Pilot Season: CBS Orders Jerry Bruckheimer Drama Trooper

Jerry Bruckheimer CBS has purchased an airplane pilot for Jerry Bruckheimer's Trooper. The main one-hour drama focuses on a smart mother who turns into a NY condition trooper. Heroes scribe Aron Eli Coleite will write and executive-produce alongside Bruckheimer (CSI franchise, The Astonishing Race) and Jonathan Littman. KristieAnne Reed can also be attached being an co-executive producer. Pilot Season: CBS orders comedy in the Muppets's Nick Stoller CBS formerly acquired dramas Elementary, a contemporary undertake A Virtual Detective, and also the legal series Baby Large Shot, together with the untitled Nick Stoller comedy.

Viola Davis Feels Higher Sense Of Responsibility After The Help

First Published: January 14, 2012 5:41 PM EST Credit: Getty Images Caption 2012 Critics Choice Movie Awards: Viola Davis Talks Receiving Accolades For Her Role In The Help LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Viola Davis rose to fan-favorite status and wowed the critics playing good-hearted, lovable maid Aibileen Clark in The Help, and the Golden Globe-nominated actress says the recognition for the challenging role is definitely satisfying. It feels pretty good! Viola told Access Hollywoods Shaun Robinson at the Critics Choice Movie Awards in Los Angeles on Thursday, when asked how it feels to receive such acting accolades. I definitely feel like Ive gone to a different place in my career and I feel a higher sense of responsibility for women [and] for women of color it feels tremendous. I feel like Im like, stepping into my purpose, she added. While she knew she had stumbled upon a very special script when she signed on for The Help, Viola said she wasnt quite sure how audiences would react to the film. I knew it was going to be something. I didnt know if it was going to be negative or positive, but I knew it was going to be something, she told Shaun. I thought it could go either way. We were making a movie about maids in 1963 who are uneducated, and it definitely couldve gone the other way. As for whether shes nervous about Ricky Gervais taking the wheel as host at the Golden Globes on Sunday (where shes up for the coveted Best Actress Motion Picture Drama award), Viola said shes hoping she escapes the comedians wrath. If he says something about me, yeah, absolutely! she told Shaun with a laugh, when asked if shes nervous about Ricky hosting. But otherwise, he is absolutely hysterical. He can blast other people and I will laugh with abandon! If he says something about me, Im gonna get my ex-linebacker husband and Im gonna say, Ricky, hey, she jokingly added. The 69th Golden Globes will air Sunday at 8 ET/5 PT on NBC. Copyright 2012 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

David Letterman Near Deal to Remain on Late Surface 2014

The Late Show with David Letterman David Letterman was passed to succeed Johnny Carson as host from the Tonight Show, but has become poised to dethrone Carson because the longest-running late-evening star in TV history. Letterman, 64, is approaching an offer with CBS that will keep him behind the desk from the Late Surface 2014, based on the NY Occasions. 2014 will mark his 32nd year at the end of evening (11 years on NBC's Late Evening then what can be 21 years on CBS). Carson was around the air at the end of evening for 3 decades. As Dork catches Jay, would be the late evening wars over? CBS continues to be approved by Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants, to create new handles the show's staff, producers and authors, based on the newspaper. Even though this signifies an offer with Letterman is "very close," like a source informs the Occasions, the way forward for CBS' other late-evening host, Craig Ferguson, is uncertain. He might not continue because the host from the Late Late Show. Even though it was thought that Letterman would retire in the finish of his current two-year deal, which expires in August, he's now prone to remain on TV. Ferguson includes a clause in the contract he will succeed Letterman whenever he selects to step lower. However, Ferguson may leave CBS if he isn't offered a large salary or perhaps a greater production plan for his show, based on the Occasions. Are you currently happy David Letterman is remaining at the end of evening?

Daniel Radcliffe on George Clooney: 'If I am In A Position To Achieve half of the items He's Accomplished, I am likely to be Happy'

2011 will be a pretty giant year for Daniel Radcliffe -- furthermore to starring to wide acclaim on Broadway in 'How to attain Business Without Really Trying' more youthful crowd finished his time as Harry Potter -- but 2012 may be a lot more crucial that you his career. Radcliffe, which has left 'How to be successful,A stars onscreen within the first publish-'Potter' project, the horror film 'The Lady in Black.' Next, the 22-year-old actor has some large options to produce about the sorts of roles he desires to do afterwards. Who'll the man formerly known to as Boy Who Were living use for inspiration? Since it calculates, George Clooney. In the new interview with PARADE, Radcliffe unveils that Clooney and Kaira Pitt are stars whose careers he wouldn't mind emulating. "I now would like to make as large a combination of everything after i can, from stage acting to film, and basically keep working," he mentioned. "What's lovely is always that [my fame] is bound to help get yourself a small independent film made, because my title carries bankability at this time, also it will do for just about any handful of more years. "In the event you have a look at somebody like Kaira Pitt or George Clooney, people are males who've immense fame and carry out some extremely effective commercial films, nonetheless they balance it by doing stuff they love, that interests them. Both may have gone lower just playing romantic leads for your relaxation from the careers creating a great living. Nonetheless they preferred to complete different stuff. Almost all Clooney's career, acting and pointing, is what I have a look at. Essentially is capable of doing half of the items he's accomplished, I am likely to be happy." Radcliffe has formerly expressed fascination with as being a director. "I must eventually certainly get behind the digital camera and direct. In my opinion that's maybe where I finish off,Inch Radcliffe mentioned a year ago within an event within the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. "I'd certainly enjoy something because direction [...] Allow me to make small films, In my opinion.In . The wide-different PARADE interview with Radcliffe also touches on his personal existence ("I hated dating because I'm garbage advertising online!In .), the love of poetry and also the mention of the The Trevor Project, a charitable organization that really activly works to avoid youthful homosexual males and girls from undertaking suicide. "In my opinion that any free-thinking individual that becomes loaded and contains strong opinions on things would try something such as The Trevor Project or scholarship grants or loans for schools or whatever. Fame is very useful in pointing attention toward people things," he mentioned. Mind to PARADE to obtain additional on Daniel Radcliffe, from his photos with time, to insight which he worries about, whether he wants to become father. [Photo: Mike Chessum for PARADE] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Howard, Bryggman in 'CQ/CX'

HowardArliss Howard and legit regulars David Pittu and Larry Bryggman are among the thesps lined up for "CQ/CX," the new play bowing Off Broadway in a production from the Atlantic Theater Company.Play by Gabe McKinley, loosely inspired by real events, centers on a young black reporter in a plagiarism scandal at the NY Times. Kobi Libii will appear as the play's protag.Stage credits for Howard ("Rubicon") include the recent Broadway revival of "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" and Off Broadway's "The Late Henry Moss." Peter Jay Fernandez, Tim Hopper, Steve Rosen and Shelia Tapia are also among the ensemble. "CQ/CX" is the latest offering in the Atlantic's 2011-12 season, following the recently shuttered Ethan Coen outing "Happy Hour."Production, helmed by David Leveaux, begins previews Jan. 25 ahead of a Feb. 15 opening at the Peter Norton Space, a venue termporarily used by the Atlantic while its mainstage theater undergoes renovation. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

Personalize The Have A Look At Looper's Tech

Rian Manley supplies a fresh imageOne of the items make us truly very happy to finally achieve 2012 is really because what this means is we're coming ever closer to the release of Brick/The Brothers and sisters Bloomcreator Rian Johnson's mind-itching time-travel thriller Looper. Now the director has made a decision to eliminate a completely new tease, showing up using one of the key factor tech elements in the new picture round the movie's Tumblr site, which you'll want to see below.Provide the film's release remains several days away, Manley has cannily been doing his better to make sure little slips out that could spoil the enjoyment. But he was kind enough to hands Empire the initial official shot within the movie means by May of a year ago.The writerOroverseer has furthermore saved the plot fairly quiet, though perform understand it spins taken off hitman Joe (Ernest Gordon-Levitt), an assassin associated with a more sophisticated, time-spanning plot that involves him killing sufferers submitted time later on. The hooded humans arrive, he slaughters these with a blunderbuss, then burns the body so there's no evidence. Just one day a hoodless person arrives, exactly the same shape as Joe's future self (Bruce Willis). Signal hard for survival far more...Within the looks from the picture, Looper's chrono-tinkering gadgetary owes more to Terry Gilliam-style industrial items than any sleek Trek-nology.If you're itching to find out more, you will have to wait for trailer(s) so the film's September 28 release date. Consider Empire was really the only film magazine round the set, you may even expect some exclusive coverage since the movie itself will get near cinemas...

Are Minka Kelly & Derek Jeter Getting Back Together?

First Published: January 1, 2012 8:42 PM EST Credit: Getty Images Caption Minka Kelly and Derek Jeter of the NY Yanklees watch as Novak Djokovic of Serbia plays against James Blake of the United States during his mens singles match on day six of the 2010 U.S. Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 4, 2010 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of NY City on September 4, 2010LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Are Minka Kelly and Derek Jeter rekindling their romance? The couple, who broke up five months ago after three years of dating, jetted to Paris over the holiday weekend, according to People. The former Charlies Angels star, 31, and her 37-year-old MLB pro reportedly stayed with friends at a boutique hotel on the citys Left Bank, and hit up many of Paris most popular sites, including the Musee DOrsay. They looked much in love, an observer told the mag. They were always very, very close [and] very playful as a couple with each other. The former couple reportedly hit the Montremartre district on Saturday, where Minka was spotted snapping of Derek with her cell phone at the Sacre-Coeur church. As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, the pair broke up in August after a 3-year relationship. They care about each other and it was amicable, a source said at the time. Theyre still friends. Copyright 2012 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.