S.F. film pioneer Graham Leggat dies at 51

LeggatGraham Leggat, executive director from the Bay Area Film Society, died at his Bay Area home on Thursday after an 18-month fight with cancer. He was 51."For pretty much six exciting and major years, Graham Leggat brought the Bay Area Film Society with irrepressible determination, dash and design," stated Pat McBaine, leader from the Film Society's board of company directors. "His vision, leadership, passion, work ethic, tenacity, imagination and daring together with his colorful language and wicked Scottish spontaneity have indelibly marked our company having a valuable legacy and left it within the best shape -- creatively, organizationally and financially -- in the 54-year history."Leggat was hired executive director from the Film Society in 2005. Throughout his 5 years, employees increased from 11 to 35 and also the operating budget was broadened from $two million to $six million and was balanced every year.He started your temporary job in the New You are able to Film Festival in 1994, then executive positions in the American Museum from the Moving Image, the Museum of contemporary Art and also the Film Society of Lincoln subsequently Center. Leggat offered about the boards of Media Alliance and also the Association of Independent Film and Videomakers, would be a programmer in the New You are able to Video Festival and also the Shorts Worldwide Film Festival, and assisted found the Gen Art Film Festival. He was the connect writer of Film Comment magazine, adding editor for Filmmaker magazine and writer for that New You are able to Daily News.In the 2009 Worldwide Film Festival Summit, Leggat received the Director Excellence Award, given to the film festival director that has made considerable contributions along with a lasting effect on his/her film festival and independent film, by having an focus on festival growth, new programs, business structure and overall vision.At the begining of 2011 in france they consul general in Bay Area, Romain Serman, made Leggat a Chevalier p l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, an recognition granted through the French Minister of Culture, in recognition of his significant support of cinema. Leggat is made it by his parents Graham and Marilyn of Niagara Falls, Canada, boy William and kids Vhary and Isabelle, sister Alexandra Leggat of Toronto, partner Diana Chiawen Lee, former wife Ellen Hughes, mother of his kids and former wife Lillian Heard, mother of his boy.Instead of flowers, donations in Leggat's memory might be designed to the Bay Area Film Society. A memorial service, available to the general public, is planned for late September. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

A Clip of Shameless Self-Promotion in Movies

Back in March, a YouTube user posted a clip featuring movies where characters use the actual film title in the dialogue. One thing we learned by watching this is that some characters do this more shamelessly than others (take 'Face/Off', for instance). Well, get ready for more of the same with a Movie Titles in Movies clip Part Two. It follows the same general structure the last one did, although we think the choices from Part One were a little better. Check out both videos below and judge for yourself. [via Reddit] Image courtesy of YouTube

Last Exorcism follow up in route

Despite covering fairly well-worn ground when it comes to its subject material, Daniel Stamm's The Final Exorcism would be a nastily effective little horror film. Additionally, it switched a proper profit, raking inside a worldwide haul of $62.5 million to a lot more than cover its meagre $1.8 million budget.It shojuld not be a surprise then to understand that Canal Plus want to determine follow up made, with production set to start about the project within the coming several weeks. Based on Warmth Vision, Damien Chazelle has already been working hard on penning the script.Chazelle is really a recent Harvard grad, whose only completed film credit is Guy And Madeleine On The Park Bench, a little-scale musical that offered in her college thesis. However, since that time everything has been greatly about the up for that gifted kid.His 2010 Black-Listed script The Claim was acquired this past year and Chazelle lately offered Grand Piano to Hidden producer Adrian Guerra. Pretty good taking a 25-year-old, could it be?Not sure up to now about the direction the follow up will require, or indeed who'll occupy the director's chair. The very first film would be a found-footage chiller, based on the premise of the documentary crew such as the following a preacher through his final confrontation using the forces of evil.

Underworld: Awakening Trailer Online

Selene is in action.... Will it really take two company directors along with a batch of authors to create an Underworld franchise entry? Apparently, within the situation of Underworld: Awakening, it does. Browse the leads to the brand new trailer below. Yes, this 4th film boasts Shelter pointing pair Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein, working from the script compiled by John Hlavin, Allison Burnett and J Michael Straczynski, who all required a pass at different drafts. Set fifteen years following the occasions of Underworld: Evolution, the brand new outing finds Selene (Kate Beckinsale, back front and center after sitting out prequel Rise from the Lycans) avoid many years of captivity to uncover the planet is an extremely different place. Humans have found the presence of both vampires of the underworld and werewolves and therefore are on the campaign to create both species extinct. Which has sparked off an exciting-out war which will see loyalties examined, super-Lycans produced and Selene playing around as always, slitting throats, tossing weapons and usually as being a badass in tight PVC. Oh, and she or he goes looking for the daughter she did not know been around so far, Lycan/vampire hybrid Eve. With Michael Ealy, Charles Dance, Stephen Rea and India Eisley also one of the cast, Underworld: Awakening will chuck things at us in three dimensional on The month of january 20 the coming year.

One Evening Stand

An Overnight Musicals production. Created, directed by Elisabeth Sperling, Trish Dalton.With: Cheyenne Jackson, Rachel Dratch, Richard Kind, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Scarlett Strallen, Tamara Tunie, Theresa McCarthy, Alicia Witt, Tracie Thoms.Beginning on your own, a frazzled but gifted number of artists must write, cast, direct, rehearse and offer four 20-minute Broadway musicals in 24 hrs in "One Evening Stand," a documentary that perfectly conveys the creative madness unleashed along the way. Using split-screens and intercutting between your four different playlets each and every stage of development, helmers Elisabeth Sperling and Trish Dalton maintain nervous tension while revealing the quasi-miraculous procedure for building scripts, tunes and figures from nothing. This beautifully lensed, dynamically edited NewFest award champion could fit a metropolitan arthouse niche, and appears tailor-designed for PBS or cable. In an initial mass set up, the authors, composers, choreographers, company directors and stars all introduce themselves and deliver just a little show and talk about any knick knacks or odd objects they may have introduced along. The thesps included in this belt out a couple of bars to show their musical range. Four random types of authors and composers are then sent on choose a cast and brainstorm through the evening. Plots crystallize around tentatively pitched ideas inspired by props, real existence or even the hidden potential from the selected stars. The filmmakers monitor two musicals developing organically, gags and lyrics mounting up in separate bursts of inspiration. Another proceeds in fits and begins inside a loose sketch structure, but a 4th barely will get off the floor, leading to fears of non-completion. Sperling and Dalton unobtrusively deploy several cameras concurrently, cutting one of the teams without losing the thread or compromising momentum, even while juxtaposing contrasting styles and amounts of progress. In the finish from the lengthy evening, typed scripts and computer-recorded scores are passed out to become commited to memory, practiced and choreographed (and, within the final handful of hrs, blocked, lit and musically arranged onstage). Only at that juncture, the stars often dominate the proceedings, specially the inimitable Richard Kind, needed to commit to memory multiple pages of lyrics and dialogue. Kind stars in "Islands," in regards to a unsuccessful Ponzi schemer who, kicked out from his apartment, hopes for a brand new existence on Staten Island. Rachel Dratch's mounting anxiety, unmistakably authentic as she worries about needing to sing alongside genuine divas, becomes infectious as she head lines "Rachel Stated Sorry," in regards to a lady attempting to apologize for drunken remarks she made in a friend's prenuptial weekend. And also the whole cast of "Multiphobia," brought by Theresa McCarthy, turns obsessive-compulsive hands-cleaning into a skill. The main one playlet which has trouble stimulating, aside from some sexy moves by Scarlett Strallen, may be the Cheyenne Jackson-headed "Dr. Williams," featuring three surgeon siblings who all happen to be romantically entangled using their patient. The main one-evening-only performance offered like a fundraising event for that Exchange, which assists innovative British and American theater.Camera (color, HD), Mia Barker, Joshua Bee Alafia, Dalton, Ian Dudley, Luke Meyer, Hannah Rosenzweig, David Soll, Sperling, Alex Stikich, Joshua Z. Weinstein editors, Julie Janata, Karen Lynn Weinberg music, Paul Trubachik supervisory seem editor, Tom Efinger re-recording mixer/seem designer, Eric Gitelson. Examined on DVD, New You are able to, August. 8, 2011. (In NewFest.) Running time: 74 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Sony, AMC pact for more 'Breaking Bad'

'Breaking Bad'Sony Pictures Television and AMC have come to terms on a 16-episode order of series "Breaking Bad," according to sources close to the negotiations. The order will represent the final episodes of the series, allowing its creators to map out an end game for "Bad's" storylines. The studio and cable network have been negotiating for months on the financial terms of the deal, which could have led Sony to find another network to continue the series if AMC couldn't handle the cost. "Bad," which has garnered significant critical acclaim and respectable Nielsen ratings for a basic-cable series, is currently in its fourth season. What has yet to be determined is whether the fifth and final season will be split into separate seasons or the 16 episodes will air in one continuous cycle. Also to be decided is when the series would return to production and when its final season would premiere. Negotiations went down to the wire with a deadline looming on picking up the actors' options, which meant reaching a deal soon was critical. However, Sony still needs to come to terms with actors and top producers for "Bad" on what it will take to get them back for a fifth season, though that's not expected to be as tough a negotiation as it was to bring the series back to AMC. Contact Andrew Wallenstein at andrew.wallenstein@variety.com

Watch Adam Levine and Christina Aguilera's "Moves Like Jagger" Music Video

Adam Levine and Christina Aguilera The Voice might have crowned Javier Colon its first champion, it caused a collaboration between a couple of its coaches. Christina Aguilera and Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine first showed their song "Moves Like Jagger" about the NBC singing competition show this summer time and today have revealed their music video featuring footage from the Moving Stones' Mick Jagger themself revealing -- what else? -- his moves. The recording also features various models attempting to mimic his legendary loose-limbed dancing. Take a look at "Moves Like Jagger": [Warning: The recording consists of brief nudity] How can you such as the video? That has the very best moves?

FX's 'The League' Had Contingency Plan in case of a Football Lockout

Forex"The League" The designers of FX's fantasy football comedy The League were built with a plan b for that series when the Nfl and it is gamers couldn't arrived at a compromise throughout its lockout captured. "Plan B revolved around [the figures] losing their marbles,Inch Shaun Schaffer joked Saturday in the Television Experts Association's summer time press tour in Beverly Hillsides. "The CFL could have been happy.Inch "We understood, we interceded there could be football," he stated. "We frantically wanted there to become football and anxiously waited until there is football. Forex was awesome around pushing our shooting date and our air date to hang about until there is football." TCA Summer time Press Tour: THR's Complete Coverage To that particular point, he noted that footage of Nick Kroll (who plays Rodney Ruxin) inside a music video spoof from the Chicago Bears' 1985 "Super Bowl Shuffle" video tested for experts was shot as late as last evening. As the duo noted that getting a football season for that series turning around an illusion league is essential towards the show, the threat of the lockout was advantageous towards the authors because they recognized the series had lots of material to utilize have there been to not be any games. "Once we began writing Season 3 we recognized we're able to write the show without football," Jackie Schaffer stated, observing that authors could explore the characters' lives, love interests and jobs. "We all do love fantasy football and you want to ensure that it stays included in the show but you want to continue exploring their lives." Added Shaun Schaffer: "When dealing with the Armageddon of no football, we needed to explore if these men would be buddies if there wasn't football." Also significant from Saturday's session: Seth Rogen can look within the premiere as Rafi's (Jason Mantzoukas) infamous friend Dirty Randy. Season 3 from the League premieres Thursday, March. 6 at 10:30 p.m. on Forex. Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com Twitter: @Snoodit RELATED: Summer time TCA Gallery TCA Summer time Press Tour 2011

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Elliott Kozak, the 'Go-To Guy' for Bob Hope, Dies at 80

Elliott Kozak, the producer for Bob Hope for more than three decades who also served as the comedian's agent and manager, died July 23 of complications after recent surgery at Providence Tarzana Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 80.our editor recommendsobituaries Kozak, who also worked at WMA and ICM, sold to NBC the Motown 25th anniversary special that aired in 1983 and featured Michael Jackson's memorable performance of "Billie Jean" and his first televised "moonwalk" move. Although Kozak crisscrossed between Hope and various talent agencies throughout his 65-year career, he was known primarily in the industry as the "go-to guy" for anything Hope-related. Born in Brooklyn, Kozak began at the age of 15 in 1945 in the WMA mailroom in New York, and within three years he became a full-time agent in the TV-variety department, booking The Milton Berle Show and The Ray Bolger Show, among others. At WMA, Kozak did a favor for Colonel Tom Parker and got a young Elvis Presley an audition on the show Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. Presley and his band were unable to finish the first verse of "Heartbeak Hotel" and were immediately rejected. In 1959, on a tip from Berle, Kozak learned that Hope's longtime agent Jimmy Saphier was looking for someone to help book Hope's NBC specials, so Kozak departed for the West Coast to link up with Hope. Kozak returned to WMA in 1969 - specifically the TV-variety department - for a three-year stint, helping shepherd a young Michael Ovitz as well as Kozak's assistant, future mega-manager George Shapiro. Kozak packaged talent for NBC'sRowan & Martin's Laugh-in and booked the syndicated Merv Griffin Show, among other TV shows. In 1972, Kozak rejoined Hope, this time partnering with Saphier, and would become Hope's main agent after Saphier's death in 1974. Kozak was soon producing Hope's many NBC specials, coordinating his appearances and running his production office. Kozak was hired by ICM in 1979 to run its TV-variety department, and he brought in such A-list producers and directors as Gary Smith & Dwight Hemion(Baryshnikov on Broadway)and Steve Binder, a veteran Emmy Awards producer. However, it was the show that Motown's Suzanne de Passe brought him in 1982 that would become Kozak's crowning achievement. Kozak sold to NBC the two-hour special and ICM package Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, which marked Jackson's first TV appearance since the release of the huge-selling Thriller. It won an Emmy for best TV special as well as an NAACP Image Award and a Peabody Award and became one of the highest-rated shows in TV history. Following the Motown project, Hope asked Kozak to return for what would be his final run with the comedian, where this time he also served as his manager. In 1991, Kozak opened up a West Coast office for Nashville's Buddy Lee Attractions, where he would remain throughout the 1990s. He entered "semi-retirement" in 2000 and spent the last decade of his life booking personal appearances. Survivors include his wife Marie; sons Robert and Steven, a clearance coordinator on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno; and daughters Heather and Julie, a wardrobe supervisor on Extra. A memorial service is set for 2 p.m. Sunday at the Motion Picture & Television Country Home in Woodland Hills. Related Topics Obituaries