Tony Shalhoub Joins Discomfort And Gain

And Michael Bay casts a supermodel...And ideas thought Michael Bay really was, truly going to behave different with Discomfort And Gain. But not a chance, he's gave in to 1 of his favourite old habits, casting Israeli supermodel Bar Paly within the based-on-truth crime comedy drama, together with Tony Shalhoub.The film, as you will probably know, stars Mark Wahlberg as Daniel Lugo and Dwayne Manley as Adrian Doorbal, who hatched a hackneyed extortion and kidnapping ring in Florida. Paly is signing onto play Sabina Petrescu, an illegal immigrant and former beauty full who hopes being the following Lana Turner and catches Lugo's eye on the way.Shalhoub is going to be Marc Schiller, the guy that Lugo and Doorbal target in their kidnapping attempt.Bay has additionally put together Erectile dysfunction Harris, Anthony Mackie and Take advantage of Corddry for that film, which he's now planning to shoot according to Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely's script.Shalhoub, obviously, includes a healthy credit list, but was last featured coming back because the voice of Luigi in Cars 2. He'll next be observed in Movie 43. Paly, unlike a few of her supermodel alternatives, really has some acting experience under her belt, around telly miniseries The Starter Wife and films The Ruins and Stiletto on her behalf CV. She's also just done Roman Coppola's A Glimpse Within The Mind Of Charlie Swan III opposite Charlie Sheen and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

The Actual Story Behind House's Cancellation

House, Charlyne Yi and Hugh Laurie The choice to finish House after eight seasons wasn't easy - and, it works out, did not always need to come whatsoever this season. Based on associates, star Hugh Laurie and the fellow executive producers David Shoreline and Katie Jacobs were wanting to bring the lengthy-running Fox drama back for just one more year, despite the usual understanding that everybody was prepared to move ahead. One professional thinks that Laurie, among the greatest-compensated stars on television (he makes $700,000 a chapter), being ready to have a pay cut to be able to return. The network wasn't searching to forget about House, which earnings a 3.5 rating among grown ups 18-49 and 9.a million audiences - good amounts for any drama in the eighth season. Universal TV, the studio behind House, seemed to be anxious to help keep creating the show, which adds huge amount of money to NBCUniversal's main point here. "Universal was charge equine, the main one driving a renewal," one source states. "It had probably the most desire and ambition to complete another season." But Fox, which presently stays $5 million a chapter for House, desired to visit a cut within the show's license fee before thinking about a renewal. And although Universal was prepared to get back some costs, it had not been as large a price reduction as Fox wanted. Associates also say Universal was going after a 22-episode order, while Fox would only invest in your final 13-episode season. "Universal came off as aggressive," one professional states. "It had been this type of large gap that [Fox] did not pursue the discussions." Universal associates the studio was surprised at your decision coupled with been willing to sort out an agreement. Last May, discussions between Fox and Universal were not resolved until just days prior to the network introduced its fall schedule. That deal incorporated budget cuts that brought towards the departure of Lisa Edelstein (Cuddy), among other changes. Fox and Universal were likely facing another lower-to-the-wire deal this season, coupled with discussions fallen apart, it could have been past too far for House to construct an effective farewell episode. This is exactly why Shoreline have been pushing Fox and Universal since last fall to provide him a strong answer on if the show would continue. Shoreline, Jacobs and Laurie desired to wrap House on their very own terms, but faced a Catch-22: Either goal for any renewal and risk not dealing with create a series closer, or push for any proper finale but shut the doorway on the renewal. Because the decision pulled on, Fox Entertainment leader Kevin Reilly stated in The month of january, "We are just staying away from it, to tell the truth along with you.Inch The delay also gave Fox an opportunity to observe how newer and more effective mid-season dramas carried out. Although Alcatraz required a dip opposite the launch of NBC's The Voice on Mondays, it carried out strongly for Fox and it is a shoo-set for renewal. The brand new Kiefer Sutherland drama Touch, which starts its full run in March, did well in the The month of january 25 preview. With both shows in the pocket, in addition to a potential Terra Nova renewal and five drama aircraft pilots within the works, Reilly had more incentive to allow House go. Fox executives and Shoreline decided to wrap some misconception, as well as on Feb 8, the cast and crew were informed. At that time, Shoreline had made his peace using the decision. "He was thinking about another year," states an insider. "But he took it out as strong as you possibly can.Inch The show's stars continue to be processing this news. Peter Jacobson (Dr. Taub) is at NY watching a higher school the game of basketball as he got word. "I seriously cannot say enough just how much I'll miss being round the whole cast and crew," he states. "A really lovely, industrious and generous group who're constantly fun to be with.Inch Within their statement announcing the show's finish, Shoreline, Jacobs and Laurie addressed their desire to not prolong House's exit: "The producers have always imagined House being an enigmatic creature he will not be the final someone to leave the party. Just how much easier to disappear prior to the music stops, while there's still some promise and mystique in mid-air.Inch They added, "The choice to finish the show now, or ever, is really a painful one. The reveal is a supply of great pride to everybody involved." Universal TV keeps the privileges to look House elsewhere, but NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt has stated he will not aim to move it onto his network. Ultimately, House may have created 177 episodes, "that is about 175 a lot more than anybody expected in 2004," Shoreline, Jacobs and Laurie stated within their statement. That is what we'd call a complete House. With confirming by David Hochman. Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!

Taking 'The Vow' of celebrity

Jonathan Glickman, Gary Barber, Clint Culpepper and Roger Birnbaum take "The Vow" in Hollywood. Screen Gems threw a wedding-themed buffet at the Roosevelt. Director Michael Sucsy with pic's Jessica McNamee Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams welcome their off-screen doppelgangers Krickitt and Kim Carpenter to Grauman's Chinese. It's one thing to play a role based on a real person. It's another thing to watch the movie with that person sitting alongside you in the room.Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams attended Screen Gems' "The Vow" premiere at the Chinese on Monday night, along with the real-life couple, Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, who inspired the amnesia love story. "I was scared to meet the guy," Tatum said of meeting Kim on the set. "I haven't been able to talk to him about what he really thought of the film, so I'm kind of scared to do that."Preem festivities moved across the street to the Roosevelt for the after-party, where guests included Tatum's "Magic Mike" co-star Adam Rod-riguez. That upcoming pic is loosely based on Tatum's personal experience as a stripper. Rodriguez remarked, "You cannot take yourself too seriously when you're standing in a dance line with six other grown men in their G-strings." Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

New Snow White And The Huntsman Pic

You've got chainmailIf your afternoon is in need of a blazing battlefield and a tooled-up Kristen Stewart to amp it up, we bring glad tidings. This new still from Snow White And The Huntsman, recently arrived via the medium of Twitter, has both. We knew that Stewart's Snow White is no wallflower - this could be the first princess to qualify for The Expendables 2 - but here's more proof that she'll be kicking substantially more ass than her on-screen rival, Lily Collins.With their respective trailers out in the public domain, it's pretty clear that there's serious daylight between Universal's new take on the Grimm Brothers fairy tale and Tarsem Singh's frothier confection, Mirror Mirror. Which makes perfect sense. If we invent a completely imaginary fantasy spectrum with Stardust and The Princess Bride at one end and Lord Of The Rings at the other, there's a whole lot of room for both.Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron are Stewart's hunky ally and narcissistic nemesis respectively. Sneezy, Dopey, Happy, Disruptive, Hairy Palms and the rest of the gang are presumably just off screen. Or not.Snow White And The Huntsman is out on June 1, 2012. Click here for more in the meantime.

'Starbuck,' 'Up There' among Santa Barbara individuals who win

French-Canadian laffer "Starbuck" won everyone else choice award within the 27th Santa Barbara Worldwide Film Festival, which wrapped Sunday. The Panavision Spirit Award for independent cinema visited "On The Internet For,Inch directed by Zam Salim, who wona a $60,000 value Panavision camera package.Best docu visited "Pretty Old," directed by Walter Matteson, about participants from the Senior Sweetheart Beauty Pageant. "Barrymore," starring Christopher Plummer and directed by Erik Canuel, won a distinctive jury prize for artistic distinction. Worldwide film award visited Ismael Ferroukhi's French/Algerian historic drama "Free Males," because the Nueva Vision award for that the spanish language language/Latin American film visited "Found Recollections," directed by Julia Murat. The Cinema Nouveau award for French featurewent to "Warmth Wave," directed by Jean-Jacques Jauffret. "Dirty Energy," in regards to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill, won the Fund for Santa Barbara Social Justice award.The 11-day event closed getting a screening of Nadine Labaki's "Which Side We Proceed Now.Inch Contact Pat Saperstein at pat.saperstein@variety.com