Yoda Can be a Representative for Ramen Noodles (VIDEO)

Yesterday, you jeered and jeered inside a montage of Darth Vader cameos in ads, which ultimately shown the Sith Master was simply a business shill. Sadly, the Gloomy isn't the only person selling out. Behold, a Japanese advertisement for Cup Noodles featuring Yoda. In this place, the all-effective Jedi master uses his capabilities inside the most heroic way possible -- for an additional-large kettle of steaming water and flowing it by having an equally extra-large cup of ramen. For an individual who encourages persistence, this ad seems completely hypocritical. Oh, well. No less than it's Ramen and not, say, Currys PC/World. Right, Darth? [via Movieline] [Photo: YouTube] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

J.R. Martinezs Amazing Dancing Win

First Launched: November 23, 2011 9:50 AM EST Credit: ABC Caption Karina Smirnoff and J.R. Martinez celebrate winning Dwts Season 13, November. 22, 2011LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Lately crowned Dwts champion J.R. Martinez thanked the whole country following this impressive mirrorball victory on Season 13 in the hit ABC reality competition. Access Hollywood guest correspondent Tim Vincent taken up while using military veteran and former The Kids actor after being crowed the ballroom king, where he edged out fellow participants Make the most of Kardashian and Ricki Lake. Its amazing. Its an amazing feeling, an ecstatic J.R. mentioned. We wish to thank everyone in your house who selected for people every single week, and thinking in us once i stood a bad week and whatever it may be. Appreciate pushing us through and giving us an opportunity to win this trophy, he ongoing. The first sort United states . States Military infantryman, who was simply utilized in Iraq, needed the opportunity by means of saying thanks to the nation. Nearly around were experiencing this and holding this, thanks America to become some your way too, he told Tim. The 28-year-old also gushed about his partner and first-time mirrorball champion, ballerina Karina Smirnoff. Its amazing that we might take part for the reason that journey where she'll get her first mirrorball trophy. She warrants it. Outdoors from the great dancer, shes a great person. Shes beautiful round the outdoors clearly, but shes beautiful inside, he told Tim. The fact I possibly could participate for the reason that journey and witness that personally was amazing. Were experiencing this! AH Nation Poll: Did the very best celebrity win Dwts? Follow The Link to election! Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

REVIEW: Woody Harrelson's Menace Yields Diminishing Returns in Rampart

The last few weeks have provided us with some iconic imagery of police violence in response to the Occupy Wall Street movement — Lt. John Pike casually pepper spraying a group of UC Davis students like he’s Febrezing a sofa, 84-year-old Dorli Rainey being helped away from a confrontation in Seattle after being doused herself, Marine Scott Olsen getting carried out through a haze of tear gas in Oakland with a fractured skull. These recent events lend Oren Moverman’s Rampart a queasy immediacy even though it’s set in the ’90s, as the LAPD’s Rampart Division struggles through the notorious police misconduct scandal that ended up implicating dozens of officers and inspired the likes of Training Day and The Shield. Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson), the bad, bad beat cop — the self-proclaimed “one cop who gets it” — at the film’s center, wields far heavier artillery than a canister of spray and regularly crosses major lines of corruption and brutality, but the psychological core stands — there’s room to hide or rationalize away almost anything in the name of maintaining authority, upholding order, us against them and any means necessary. Both enthralling and draining, Rampart is a claustrophobic account of Brown’s downward spiral, or at least an accelerating chunk of it — things haven’t been going quite right for him for a while. Brown is, as his teenager daughter tells him caustically to his face, a “dinosaur,” a would-be mix of Dirty Harry and John Wayne who’s at least half as smart as he’s convinced he is. It’s a dream of a role for Harrelson, who’s the camera’s constant quavering focus, and who keeps us torn between being drawn in and repulsed by this disastrous, magnetic character. And we’re not the only ones — Brown may not have many friends, but he gets applause when he strolls back into the station after being suspended for nearly beating a man do death on camera, and he’s able to temporarily charm the ladies against their better judgment. “Oh, well,” a one-night-stand sighs in the afterglow of their assignation, as if only then coming to terms with the type of man she just slept with. He lives with an unlikely brood of women who are growing increasingly sick of his presence — his two ex-wives (Anne Heche and Cynthia Nixon), who happen to be sisters, and their two daughters, caustic teen Helen (Brie Larson) and the younger Margaret (Sammy Boyarsky). The threat of his family dissolving and leaving him alone is shaking Brown’s universe, but not as much as the thought that he’ll be fired or forced to retire from the LAPD. Being a cop is his everything — the film tracks him cruising the streets in a black-and-white, chain-smoking in his mirrored aviator sunglasses, his preening self-image projecting so strong it basically becomes fact. But being a cop doesn’t mean the same thing it did when he started. “This used to be a glorious soldiers’ department,” he tells a female rookie (Stella Schnabel, daughter of Julian), “and now it’s you.” Not long after, he tells her, “This is a military occupation, kid, emergency law,” and just how much he buys into the bullshit he’s spouting becomes the film’s central question. Any sliver of serious self-awareness, any betrayal of his own one-man-against-the-world ideology could bring everything tumbling down, though an examination of his recent actions by a D.A. investigator (Ice Cube) promises to force the issue. Moverman, whose previous film, 2009’s very good home front drama The Messenger, also featured Harrelson, co-wrote Rampart with crime laureate James Ellroy, and the latter’s nihilism and feel for the grimy side of L.A. are all over this film. While it provides a watchable, nuanced portrait of man in crisis, it’s an insistently one-note affair, repeated until it induces a splitting headache. Brown is one hell of a difficult person to spend a hundred minutes with, and though his desperation grows over the course of the film, as the likes of Sigourney Weaver and Steve Buscemi show up to try and manage the PR disasters he’s sparked, as he begins an affair with a criminal defense lawyer (Robin Wright) he seems drawn to primarily because of what a terrible idea it is, as his shady retired source on department goings-on (Ned Beatty) presents him with questionable info, he doesn’t change. He’s consumed with the concept that he’s being set up, but the trouble he’s in is all his own fault — he’s calcified into the kind of man the world would happily use as a half-deserving scapegoat. The film’s loose camerawork aims to capture Brown’s growing disorientation on his path toward oblivion, but it often draws distracting attention to itself, the seams showing — one conversation is deliberately staged so that you can only see the back of the listener’s head, and another is shot upwards from under a table so that it obscures half the screen. As Brown lurches toward self-destruction, we start to long for him to find it. He’s obviously not interested in fixing anything, and that leaves only his sad but utterly earned solitary trudge toward some form of closure that neither he, nor we, will find in the film. Follow Alison Willmore on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin Gives $500,000 to Wikipedia

NY - A basis produced by Google co-founder Sergey Brin and the wife has given a $500,000 grant to Wikipedia that can help fund the organization's annual budget, Ars Technica reported. The internet encyclopedia holds a yearly fundraising event rather than accepting advertising. The grant from Brin and wife Anne Wojcicki would go to the Wikimedia Foundation, which started its latest annual fundraising event to aid Wikipedia and sister sites a week ago, based on the report. The fundraising event will tell you The month of january. The Wikimedia Foundation's total planned investing for that new fiscal year is $28.3 million, based on Ars Technica. This past year's campaign elevated $16 million toward the building blocks's $20 million budget. "If everybody reading through this contributed $5, our fundraising event could be over today," a note on Wikipedia stated. An individual appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, reported by Ars Technica, stated: "Google may have near to millions of servers. Yahoo has something similar to 13,000 staff. We now have 679 servers and 95 staff. Wikipedia may be the #5 site web serves 450 million differing people each month - with vast amounts of page sights. Commerce is okay. Advertising isn't evil. However it doesn't belong here. Not in Wikipedia." Email: Georg.Szalai@thr.com Twitter: @georgszalai Related Subjects Google

Muppets PR Blitz Vamps On with Twilight Parody Posters

We’ve seen enough satirical Muppets promo material to last us through the next hundred Muppet sequels, but I have to hand it to the tireless Disney merchants for their newest gag: a Twilight Saga spoof. The Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog posters are expected, but it’s the third, Lautner-ian one-sheet that left me speechless. The pun is also first-rate. WEREROWLF. Guys, I LMAROWLF’d. Rowlf is such an understated, necessary player in the Muppet klatch. Glad to see he’s earning his own spot in the promotional materials. He’s even fit for his own role in a real Twilight poster, since he’s so brooding and serious. And if he howls at the moon even once during The Muppets, I will bounce him off Taylor Lautner’s abs and back into obscurity. Follow Louis Virtel on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Turner CEO Phil Kent to Give Opening Keynote Address at NATPE/Content First

Turner Broadcasting System Chairman and CEO Phil Kent will provide the opening keynote speech at the NATPE/Content First convention and market in Miami Beach on Jan. 23 2012, it was announced Tuesday by NATPE president and CEO Rick Feldman. "Because of all the content that Turner creates and distributes here and around the world," said Feldman. "Phil is in a unique position from which to view the present and the future. He can speak to the creative and business challenges and can also speak to the vast global, multiplatform opportunities which are dramatically changing our business." Kent has oversight of all the Turner networks, both domestic and international, including CNN, HLN, TBS, TNT, Turner Classic Movies, truTV, Cartoon Network and Turner Sports. Worldwide Turner has more than 130 channels in about 30 languages that airs in more than 200 countries. Kent has been with Turner Broadcasting since 1993, when he joined Turner from CAA where he was a TV packaging agent to head Turner Home Entertainment. NATPE will take place from Jan. 23 to 25, providing a marketplace for TV sales both in the U.S. and around the globe. This is the second year in a row it will be held at the Fontainebleau Resort in Miami Beach. Related Topics

'Prime Suspect' Future Uncertain, 'Community' Will Probably Be Back on NBC

NBC"Community" Community and Prime Suspect aren't canceled. Because the Joel McHale comedy as well as the Maria Bello drama series don't immediately easily fit into to NBC's midseason plans simply because they were introduced Monday, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that neither series remains canceled. NBC acquired six additional scripts for Prime Suspect in October and may still air the fighting series (a remake in the British franchise that starred Helen Mirren) with the relaxation of the season before deciding if you should order additional obligations. Prime Suspectthus far has consistently registered your final-place finish within the Thursday at 10 p.m. slotagainst CBS' The Mentalist and ABC's Private Practice. NBC's experiment in sampling Prime Suspect on different nights on its schedule has furthermore not proven fruitful enough. So far, the reboot is calculating 4.97 million audiences together with single.4 rating carrying out a NBC comedies. STORY: NBC Sets Midseason Schedule, Moves 'Whitney,' 'Up With The Evening,' More Community, while standing one of the network's fighting comedies despite its prime slot among its Thursday comedies, will return to the schedule inside a date being determined, sources mentioned. The comedy's latest airing attracted 3.5 million audiences, just shy of the season low it's calculating 3.69 million audiences so far together with single.6 inside the internet marketer-coveted grownups 18-49 demographic.The CW's supernatural drama The Vampire Journals, sooner or later this season, came a larger rating than Community on March. 27. Meanwhile, the fourth-place network has yet to organize a extended report on midseason fare, including Bent, BFFs, Awake and Betty White-colored's hidden-camera series In the Rockers. NBC Community Prime Suspect

Heavy D Autopsy Results Not yet proven, Pending Toxicology Reviews

A contributing factor to dying continues to be not formally known within the situation of Heavy D.our editor recommendsHeavy D's Final Performance at Wager Stylish-Hop Honours Was A part of Comeback Attempt (Video)Heavy D's Friend and Friend, Russell Simmons, Takes note of the Rapper (Video)Heavy D Dies: 5 Things to understand about the Rapper-Actor PHOTOS: Hollywood's Notable Deaths The late rapper and record producer died all of a sudden at age 44 on Tuesday, November. 8. The outcomes from an autopsy have proven not yet proven and therefore are pending the outcomes of toxicology tests, reviews the L.A. Occasions. The L.A. County coroner's spokesperson stated a week ago that there have been no illegal drugs present in Heavy D's Beverly Hillsides home, but he have been recommended a drug for any cough that might have been pneumonia. VIDEO: Heavy D's Friend and Friend, Russell Simmons Takes note of the Rapper Heavy D had came back home from the shopping at the time of his dying, before going through breathlessness and falling apart. The outcomes of his toxicology tests might take several days to find out the official reason for dying. The dying is thought to become medically related and foul play isn't suspected. A funeral for that NY-born rapper is placed for November. 18 in the historic Sophistication Baptist Chapel of Mount Vernon, NY, where P. Diddy and Rev. Al Sharpton are required to talk, based on the AP. Furthermore, Wager is planning for a tribute for his or her Sunday Soul Train Honours with Curtis Blow, Naughty by Character, Large Dad Kane, Doug E Fresh, DJ Eddie F, Whodini and Dad-O of Stetsasonic slated to sign up. Related Subjects Heavy D

Special Forces (Forces speciales)

A Studiocanal relieve an easy Company presentation and production. (Worldwide sales: Studiocanal, Paris.) Produced by Thierry Marro, Benoit Ponsaille, Stephane Rybojad. Directed by Stephane Rybojad. Script, Rybojad, Michael Cooper, Emmanuel Collomp.With: Diane Kruger, Djimon Hounsou, Benoit Magimel, Denis Menochet, Raphael Personnaz, Alain Figlarz, Marius, Mehdi Nebbou, Raz Degan, Tcheky Karyo. (French, British, Pashto dialogue)A Gallic elite commando is shipped to Central Asia to free a blonde, blue-eyed journo within the clutches in the Taliban in "Special Forces," a film that's as elementary and generic becasue it is title signifies. Fiction debut of TV documaker Stephane Rybojad wants to become rousing action-adventure against a geopolitical backdrop, but a gaping hole where the mise-en-scene needs to be proves crippling within the start. Star energy of odd pair Diane Kruger and Djimon Hounsou couldn't atone for an important drubbing in France and you'll be of little help if the hits only one Blighty screen November. 18. German-born Kruger stars as French reporter Elsa (getting a oddly Teuton accent when speaking British), who's kidnapped with the goons from the Taliban chief (Raz Degan). A distinctive French military unit is quickly delivered to Pakistan because France's image abroad reaches risk ("It will not happen that the world will dsicover the decapitation from the Frenchwoman survive TV," a politico helpfully underlines). The small unit of experienced males, seen carrying out an unrelated (as well as the film, irrelevant) job in Kosovo inside the prologue, includes a few stick figures in bulletproof vests, while using thesps' order of billing directly connected using their probability of survival. They are the serious leader, Kovax (Hounsou) his semi-funny partner, Tic Tac (Benoit Magimel), the unskilled youthful 'un (Raphael Personnaz) as well as the inflammed vet (Denis Menochet). Parachuted into enemy territory, they liberate Elsa relatively easily. However, if their radio's destroyed inside the resulting shootout, they need to go to a safer haven by walking while using Taliban around the tail, their mission reduced with a expected wager on cat-and-mouse inside the regal Hindu Kush hills. Even though the soldiers have a very journalist incorporated within this, the larger conflict in the area itself remains very black-and-white-colored (and there's no sense of almost every other forces being on the ground). The script does nothing to illuminate the 3 parties: The Taliban will be the evildoers, the Frenchmen the self-compromising military heroes, as well as the little-seen local population a fascinating bunch caught within the center. Nevertheless the film's finest issue is not its excessively simple and easy , familiar narrative, its scant character development or perhaps the soldiers' frequently miraculous capacity Taliban bullets, but rather Rybojad's poor command of film grammar. Pointing a camera any which way through the various shootouts is not any guarantee with an exciting in addition to coherent action setpiece furthermore the lackluster editing, credited to Erwan Pecher as well as the helmer (who also produced, thus creating a possible inadequate critical distance), as well as the pic every so often is taken away as sloppy. But "Special Forces" wasn't made around the small budget, getting shot for the days in gorgeous locations for instance Djibouti and Tajikistan, with Rybojad overdosing on helicopter shots of arid mountain ranges. The score strikes an unusual balance from the eighties vibe and in your town flavored sounds. Kruger isn't given a great utilize, and isn't the kind of actress who is able to hold her own when poorly directed. Generally, she's offscreen, hiding behind the nearest rock while her rescuers -- generically imposing, with only Magimel and Personnaz adding a sign of humanity -- empty their guns round the hordes of bearded and robed males inside the distance. Israeli actor Degan, playing another eye-linered evildoer after his submit Oliver Stone's "Alexander," is laughably crazy, his Cambridge-educated "butchers of Kabul" every so often insisting his entourage speak British, undoubtedly because that's what crooks do in French movies.Camera (color, widescreen), David Jankowski editors, Rybojad, Erwan Pecher music, Xavier Berthelot production designer, Christophe Jutz costume designer, Celine El Mazouzi appear (Dolby Digital), Arnaud Lavaleix, Benoit Hery, Cyril Holtz. Examined at Le Grand Rex, Paris, November. 3, 2011. Running time: 108 MIN. Contact Boyd van Hoeij at news@variety.com

Nick Jonas to experience a Deadbeat Father on Last Guy Standing

Nick Jonas Who's your child dad? If you are Kristin Baxter (Alexandra Krosney) on Last Guy Standing, he then looks a great deal like Nick Jonas. The 2nd youngest Jonas brother (should not your investment Bonus Jonas, little brother Frankie) will guest-star with an approaching episode of ABC's Last Guy Standing, TVLine reviews. See photos of Nick Jonas Jonas will have Ryan, the deadbeat father of Boyd, Mike's (Tim Allen) grand son. Ryan can have up inside a Christmas-designed episode and test Mike's goodwill towards males. Jonas last guest-starred around the now defunct Mr. Sunshine. He'll undertake charge in How to achieve Business Without Really Fitting Broadway in 2012.

Did a classic ESPN Professional Produce a Large Mistake Suing Around the Crude Erin Andrews Story? (Analysis)

Wesley Hitt/Getty ImagesESPN's Erin Andrews. The other day, former ESPN executive Keith Clinkscalessued a buddy who allegedly shared an inaccurate story aboutClinkscales self pleasuring on the airplane while sitting alongside ESPN reporter Erin Andrews. The complaint alleging defamation is very thin -- just six pages -- and boosts an problem about whether Clinkscales developed a smart relocate acting so quickly to produce this matter in to a NY federal court. What the law states suit happened similar to the sports blog Deadspin was investigatingwhat happened on that flight. Clinkscales, who until recently will be a senior v . p . of content development and companies at ESPN, made a decision he didn't desire to wait to uncover the claims on Deadspin. So he needed action by filing what's being known as just like a "pre-emptive" suit. What intrigues us here's not what went lower on the airplane, but rather what the ESPN executive wanted to attain for this tact. By filing the suit so rashly, Clinkscales virtually assured the strange masturbation claims might be covered on television and also over the dunia ngeblog. Once the Herman Cain sexual harassment coverage has trained us anything, it's that innuendo becomes ripe for media as lengthy because you will find official charges lodged or money paid out out. The primary distinction between salacious gossip and investigative verifying has become, for better or worse, a document trail. Maybe Deadspin may have launched the Clinkscalesstory anyway. But Clinkscales' allegedly "pre-emptive" suit did not do anything whatsoever to change that. No injunction was requested. The legal claim was unlikely to scare away Deadspin within the story nor substantially change how other media shops would treat a raunchy allegation which in fact had Andrews just like a character. Really the only factor the short suit might have changed can be a calculation of damages, be it proven the defendant Joan Lynch did indeed maliciously spread lies about Clinkscales, as well as the situation against her can get that far. Clinkscales may condition that Lynch's gossip-mongering hurt his status, but tend to he provethat the story that did most likely probably the most to interrupt his image may have ever launched had he not first filed the suit? In filing his claims, Clinkscales gave Deadspin an opportune news peg towards the story, in many probability insulation the site in the separate defamation claim and raising the issue whether he brought to, rather than mitigated, the exposure in the masturbation story. The defamation claim has become a energy outlet for sensitive political figures to strike back against unsavory news tales, however these type of cases also frequently incite huge news coverage. It might happy for your complaintant, but we question if this describes an error both around the PR and legal front. Here's a replica of Clinkscales' accusations, which we'll admit to own i i never thought of talking about been there 't be a federal suit: E-mail: eriqgardner@yahoo.com Twitter: @eriqgardner

Shawn Levy: Keep eye on storytelling

LevyAdvancements in filmmaking tools may enable directors to put anything they can think of on the bigscreen, but helmers need to remember to keep an eye one key element: story."Eighty percent of your brain space is taken up by the visual effects; 15% is by the story," said director-producer Shawn Levy at Variety's inaugural Film Technology Summit at Hollywood & Highland on Monday. "Nothing is impossible anymore. That's exciting, but even though most of your time is taken up by the technical stuff, you need to devote the lions share of your time to the emotional stuff."Despite helming big-budget CG-heavy tentpoles like "Night at the Museum" pics and "Real Steel," Levy admitted never to having been enamored with dealing with special effects when choosing which projects to make. "I'm always initially daunted by visual effects," he told Variety associate editor David S. Cohen. "I don't geek out on the how of it. I enjoy the results of it." Still, Levy advised filmmakers not to feel pressured to know everything about the latest tech tools."The director's job is to know what you want the film to look like on the screen," he said. "The rest is up to your team. Don't be daunted. I didn't understand it, now I do. If you're moderately bright and learn it you can tell amazing stories." Waiting for a greenlight for a studio to tackle an effects-heavy tentpole is no longer the norm, Levy said. "The days of a rolling greenlight and the blinking green light" are now typical. "You're not waiting to ramp up anymore, it's on ongoing process." Levy said that's been the case on the James Cameron-produced remake of "Fantastic Voyage" at Fox, which Levy has been developing for six months.Developing digital environments and the look of a film requires financing and "is what it takes to get the studio to fall in love with the project," Levy said.As a director, Levy isn't worried that studios only want to produce expensive tentpoles."There will always be great smaller movies," he said. "Those aren't threatened. But if one is yearning to tell a story with things that don't exist in the real world there is a bottomless well of tools."Levy especially found pre-visualization technology useful while filming DreamWorks' "Real Steel," because it allowed him to "dream and play earlier" and plan out shots before filming began. "Six months before I shot the movie, I was able to capture the fights and direct every punch rather than hand everything to an animator you may never meet," Levy said. "You can do any shot you can imagine and if you don't like it, hit delete."The director also benefited from the use of SimulCam B that enables motion capture performances to be realistically rendered as digital characters in real time in camera on set."You know what you're going to see because you're seeing it," Levy said.But Levy's production team still produced four full-scale remote controlled robots for the shoot. "What you get from performances with practical effects is huge," he said.Although "Real Steel" was not shot in 3D, due to its release close to the third "Transformers," "Fantastic Voyage" will lense in 3D, Levy said. Contact Marc Graser at marc.graser@variety.com

Nicky Whelan counts up to '7500'

WhelanNicky Whelan has boarded the CBS Films pic "7500." The pic already stars Leslie Bibb, Ryan Kwanten and Amy Smart and will be helmed by Takashi Shimizu. Craig Rosenberg penned the script about a group of passengers who encounter what appears to be a supernatural force while on a transpacific flight. Whelan will play a controlling newlywed. Shimizu, Taka Ichise and Roy Lee will produce. Her credits include New Line's "Hall Pass" and "Halloween 2." She is repped by UTA and Untitled. Contact Justin Kroll at justin.kroll@variety.com