Brad Pitt saves fallen woman on World War Z set

If there's one man you'd want alongside you during a zombie apocalypse it's clearly Brad Pitt, given that the actor managed to save a women from being trampled on the set of World War Z.The Scottish Sun newspaper said Pitt and a large group of extras were running through Glasgow's George Square to escape oncoming zombies when the woman fell.To stop her being trampled Pitt rushed over and carried her out of danger."It was total chaos as 700 extras were trying to get down the street. They were banging into moving cars, cameras and military who were carrying heavy machine guns," someone on set told The Scottish Sun."Brad didn't have time to speak to her as it was mid-shoot. But she said afterwards how grateful she was, despite having a badly-grazed knee."The newspaper reported that Pitt's quick thinking stopped a serious injury from happening on set.Will we see that footage in the final cut of World War Z? Or maybe Pitt's heroics will make a DVD extra. Either way, we'll have to wait until late 2012/early 2013 to find out.

Apple Stock Dips, Company Loses $5.5 Billion Morning After Steve Jobs CEO Resignation

NEW YORK - Shares of tech giant Apple were down only slightly in early Thursday trading, following late Wednesday's news that Steve Jobs resigned as CEO. As of 9:45am ET, Apple's stock was trading at $369.79, down 1.7 percent, less than a third the 6 percent drop in Wednesday after-hours, which had signaled a loss of about $18 billion in market value. The early morning trading gave Apple a market capitalization of about $348.8 billion, according to Bloomberg. That was down about $5.5 billion from Wednesday night when multiplying the stock price decline with the number of outstanding Apple shares. Analysts had said Wednesday evening that not much should change at Apple overnight with Jobs' decision to focus on the chairman role. Daniel Ernst, analyst at Hudson Square Research, told The Hollywood Reporter that he still recommends investors buy Apple's stock amid the decline. "The Apple story is not about a given day or even a whole quarter," he said. "Apple is a long term story of product innovation, share gains and operating execution. If the stock is down, its an opportunity to buy." Wedbush Securities analyst Scott Sutherland echoed that view. Apple remained the U.S. company with the second-highest market value after in recent days being overtaken again by oil giant Exxon Mobile. Jobs' resignation has put the spotlight on new CEO Tim Cook who is described as calm, cool, but also secretive and occasionally brutal. Email: Georg.Szalai@thr.com Twitter: @georgszalai Related Topics Steve Jobs Apple

National Geographic Beast Man Ape Amazon Nightmare

A massive one-eyed monster lurking in the Amazon...a freakish desert creature spraying acid and delivering electric shocks...an ape-like creature walking upright in the Indonesian jungle! You won't find them under your bed. These are the monsters of persistent myth and legend, and may just be based on real creatures. If they are out there, someone needs to find them. Meet Beast Man Pat Spain. A young wildlife scientist working in an ultra-advanced biotech facility. He is also an explorer willing to go to extremes to separate fact from fiction.

Even the Producers of Transmorphers Were Wary of Cowboys & Aliens

Since its release at the end of July, Cowboys & Aliens has grossed around $110 million worldwide. That’s not a washout on the level of The Worst Movie Ever!, but it’s still a big enough disappointment to possibly dissuade future Hollywood genre mixes — especially ones that deal with cowboy hats. Not that anyone should have been surprised by this underwhelming result — even the guys from The Asylum stayed away from Cowboys & Aliens. Speaking with Adult Swim, the mockbuster mavens behind such films as Transmorphers, Snakes on a Train, Almighty Thor and Battle of Los Angeles, revealed that they kicked the tires on a Cowboys & Aliens film, only to pass. “People ask why we didn’t do Cowboys & Aliens,” The Asylum’s Paul Bales said, “and we considered it for a while, but in the markets we have, genre-mixing doesn’t work.” About those markets: Bales cited Europe as particularly interested in disaster films, rather than creature features. Perhaps that means audiences can expect Fright Night to get the mockbuster from The Asylum in three-to-four months. Ding! Tip your waitress. · How to Make a Mockbuster (in Five Easy Steps) [Adult Swim]

'Last Exorcism' Follow up within the Works together with Author Damien Chazelle (Exclusive)

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for IFP The producers from the Last Exorcism are moving ahead having a follow up, tapping writerDamien Chazelle to create the follow-as much as the surprise summer time 2010 hit. The PG-13Exorcism, from production company Strike Entertainment (Kids of Males) and directed byDaniel Stamm,made $62.5 million worldwide on a tight budget of $1.six million. The found-footage Lionsgate release was written byAndrew GurlandandHuck Botko. A follow up was most likely confirmed thinking about the profitability from the first film. Studio Canal is financing the follow-up and production is slated to do this fall. Exorcism dedicated to an Evangelical preacher, performed by Patrick Fabian, who, after many years of carrying out exorcisms, decides to permit a documentary crew to film the final exorcism he intends to perform, to be able to show his jobs are a fraud. Chazelle continues to be busy lately: the author-director has additionally offered Grand Piano, a thriller spec, to Adrian Guerra.Guerra created Hidden, this years Ryan Reynolds-starring thriller.Eugenio Mira-- who helmed the The spanish language romantic thriller Agnosia -- is mounted on direct Piano, referred to like a Hitchcockian thriller in regards to a classical pianist. Chazelle, 25, switched his Harvard College senior thesis -- a musical titled Guy and Madeline on the Park Bench -- right into a feature that first showed in the Tribeca Film Festival last year. The film, that was directed by Chazelle, was launched in November by Variance Films. Chazelle's first spec script, The Claim, was acquired by Route One out of October. The thriller, that was featured about the 2010 Black List, centers on one father looking for his kidnapped daughter he or she must deal with a few who claims the kid is the daughter. Chazelle is symbolized by Gersh he's managedby Gary Ungar and Tyler Ruggeri of Exile Entertainment and the attorney is Don Steele ofHansen Jacobson Teller Hoberman Newman Warren & Richman LLP. Email: Daniel.Burns@THR.com Twitter: @DanielNMiller The Final Exorcism

Apes Still Dominating The US Box Office

But The Help also arrives strongDespite some strong new competition, Rise of the Planet of the Apes remained king of the box office swingers across the pond this weekend, as the film dipped just 49% to take in $27. 5 million. That was enough to keep it ahead of The Help, which enjoyed a solid launch, earning $25. 5 million across the weekend and more than $35 million thanks to opening early. Final Destination 5, however, had to make do with third place, taking in $18. 4 million, which might sound the death knell for the franchise. Given the relatively low budget for the movies, though, we'll have to wait and see on that one. The Smurfs dropped from second place to fourth with $13. 5 million, but that was enough to beat out one of the other new arrivals for the weekend, comedy 30 Minutes or Less. It would seem that the new movie didn't exactly connect with audiences, as it took in just $13 million in fifth. Cowboys & Aliens was sixth with $7. 6 million, and will have to go some to make its budget back. Captain America: The First Avenger retreated to seventh place, earning $7. 1 million, while Crazy, Stupid, Love was eighth with $6. 9 million. At ninth we find Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 ($6. 8 million), with The Change-Up still faltering, sinking to 10th with $6. 2 million. But even that had better news than the Glee 3D Concert Movie, which couldn't even crack the top 10 despite its rabid following and a 2,040-screen release. The New Directions gang could only muster up $5. 7 million for 11th place...To rule the planet with statistics, head on over to Box Office Mojo.

Five Dead in Stage Collapse at Sugarland Condition Fair Show

Sugarland Five everyone was wiped out and a minimum of 40 were hurt being an outside stage flattened in the Indiana Condition Fair minutes before Sugarland ended up being to perform, Reuters reviews. A YouTube video from the incident demonstrated the stage rigging was blown lower with a heavy gust of wind Saturday. Witnesses stated the elements was windy which it had began to rain. Concert authorities had cautioned participants earlier the concert may be postponed due to weather, based on the news agency. Catch on present day latest news Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels known as the collapse "freakish," and Condition Police Sgt. Dork Bursten stated more and more people could die in the accident. The condition fair was shut lower Sunday and also the collapse has been looked into by local government bodies. The fair is anticipated to re-open on Monday having a memorial for that sufferers. No choices happen to be made yet concerning the remaining concerts scheduled for that fair. Visitors attempted to keep up areas of the flattened stage to assist anybody who may be trapped, based on eyewitnesses. "Many of us are right. We're praying for the fans, and also the people of Indiana," Sugarland tweeted late Saturday evening. "Hopefully you'll come along. They require your strength." Beneath the primary stage were dressing rooms along with other facilities. The venue seats a lot more than 15,000 people.

'The Help's' Jessica Chastain: 'Torture' Gaining 15 Pounds for Film

Jessica Chastain had some trouble gaining weight to play Marilyn Monroe-esque Celia in "The Help.""I had to be soft and curvy, so I ate a lot of soy," Chastain -- who is a vegan -- tells "E! News.""Soy helps you become curvy because it has estrogen in it. So what I would doand this is really grossis buy cartons of soy ice scream, microwave it and drink it. It was disgusting [But] wait till you see my boobs in the movie," she joked.Chastain added about 15 pounds to her frame."It was like a form of torture because you put on all this weight and then you're in the South where it's really hot and muggy and you're putting on girdles to suck you in," she said of the Jackson, Miss.-based movie, which opened to $5.5 million on Wednesday.But she quickly dropped it after filming wrapped on DreamWorks' adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's bestselling novel."I do a lot of yoga," she says. "I'm also vegan, so that helps. I lose weight really quick." The Hollywood Reporter

The Assistance: Film Review

In the initial studio production, The Assistance, author-director Tate Taylor makes its way into a minefield of sociological, historic and artistic booby traps. The setting is 1963 Jackson, Mississippi, where racial tensions simmer between African-American service personnel as well as their whitened companies in the beginning from the civil privileges movement. Through cruel words and haughty gestures fortunate whitened women communicate disdain for his or her black help as the service personnel seethe in the casual insults shipped just about every day.our editor recommendsEmma Stone in 'The Help' Trailer 'The Help' Author Responds to Suit By Maid Who States Book Is dependant on Her Taylor does capture the Jim Crow era and it is anxieties well, but his figures tend toward the facile and the whitened heroine is simply too idealized. The film also appears as though it were produced in a without any motion picture lack of knowledge, as though no movie of this or other era ever handled this subject. Consequently, there's next to nothing new here that filmmakers, writers and historians haven't selected over years back. Indeed Jackson, Mississippi, together with Selma, Alabama, continues to be battling to beat as being a geographic byword for Southern potential to deal with civil privileges and human dignity. In Which The Help works wonderfully though is within character portraits by stars Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer. They play service personnel who accept tell their tales to some youthful whitened journalist, "Skeeter" Phelan (Emma Stone), who way to write a magazine to show that racism does not just mean denial of education and voting privileges. Davis' Aibileen Clark may be the epitome of deferential pleasantness having a "m'am" in the finish of each and every utterance. Yet her eyes speak volumes concerning the discomfort and anger she gets. She brings together the strange contradiction felt by many a black maid or nanny who suffers abuse as a result of whitened companies yet has lavished never-ending love and devotion about the 17 whitened children she's elevated. However, bitterness has crept into her soul because the dying of her beloved boy. Meanwhile Spencer's scrappy Minny Jackson, Aibileen's closest friend and also the best prepare within the county, provides not just comic relief but a feistiness that implies that some service personnel found the gumption andmeans to obtain back at overbearing companies. Hers is a superb character, the antithesis of Gone Using the Wind's Mammy, and she or he nearly upends this movie together with her righteous sass. VIDEO: Emma Stone in 'The Help' Trailer The film, with different novel by Kathryn Stockett, happens on the planet of Southern women. The whitened males may rule the planet although not their very own homes so that they are deliberately marginalized here. The chauvinism they display toward their spouses or female friends creates a series reaction in which the whitened women place their own various insecurities and insufficiencies on the black help. This really is all fine and dandy up to and including point, but Taylor verges irritatingly into cliché when he demands all knowledge and lengthy-suffering nobility resides inside the black baby sitters as the Southern belles of the nation-club set are generally ghouls, for example Bryce Dallas Howard's impossibly villainous Hilly Holbrook, or weak-minded go-alongers for example Allison Janney's Charlotte now Phelan, Skeeter's mother, who cannot endure Hilly's bullying. Another female character who begins off just like a cliché, Jessica Chastain's dumb blonde Celia Foote, blossoms into an accidental heroine, a social outsider in Jackson whose homemaking conspiracies with maid Minny demonstrate that some whitened Southerners were color-blind even so. Ditto that for Sissy Spacek's dotty, hard consuming old lady although sometimes she appears just like a refugee from the minor Tennessee Williams play. Which leaves the issue from the film's actual protagonist. Having a title like Skeeter, you may expect this 22-year-old to become a digital rebel and troublemaker. Nothing makes up about her color-blindness other that they is appropriate-minded -along with a author. For, naturally, a novelist would assume another author is above such pettiness as racism and sophistication snobbery. Stone is just one of our best youthful stars and she or he acquits herself well within this role. She enables you to suppose this may be how Scout from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird may have switched out had she be a journalist: Too inquisitive, sensitive and understanding to not brush aside the most popular knowledge during the day to determine eternal facts about people. You will find small moments within the film though which make you lengthy for any movie that's not too deep-dish serious and self-conscious, a modern day movie that may make use of the point of view of the half century to check out yesteryear having a type of cock-eyed sophistication for example Todd Haynes' Not Even Close To Paradise or perhaps the TV series Mad Males. These moments come if you notice a maid absurdly cleaning a sizable stuffed bear or when one opines: "Love and hate are two horns on a single goat." Now this is the spirit! But, no, the film falls an excessive amount of deeply in love with its vintage cars, period hair styling, quaint customs and ubiquitous cigarettes. It remains a touch too lengthy about the Colored Only signs and Confederate flags. Celebrate its points with set design and camera actions instead of fully explore the never-ending puzzlement of human malice and lack of knowledge. Opens: August 10 (Wally Disney Galleries Movies) Production companies: Touchstone Pictures and DreamWorks in colaboration with Participant present a Reliance Large Entertainment/Imagenation Abu DabiFZ/1492 Pictures production Cast: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Allison Janney, Jessica Chastain, Mary Steenburgen, Sissy Spacek, Mike Vogal, Chris Lowell, Cicely Tyson, Aunjanue Ellis Director/film writer: Tate Taylor In line with the novel by: Kathryn Stockett Producers: Michael Barnathan, Chris Columbus, Brunson Eco-friendly, Executive producers: Jennifer Blum, Mohamed Khalaf Al-Mazrouel, Nate Berkus, L. Dean Johnson Junior., John Norris, Mark Radcliffe, Shaun Skoll, Tate Taylor Director of photography: Stephen Goldblatt Production designer: Mark Ricker Music: Thomas Newman Costume designer: Sharen Davis Editor: Hughes Winborne PG-13 rating, 146 minutes Bryce Dallas Howard Chris Lowell Cicely Tyson Jessica Chastain Mary Steenburgen Viola Davis Emma Stone The Assistance

Exclusive: Hugh Hefner Will not Be Narrating NBC's The Playboy Club

Playboy Club You will not be hearing much from Hugh Hefner on NBC's The Playboy Club this fall. Hefner narrates the brand new series' pilot episode, but will not perform the same later on episodes.Like the producers behind The Playboy Club are leaning toward getting rid of the show's narration device altogether, based on show associates. (Within the pilot, Hefner sets happens for that show via voice-over in the open and shut from the show.)But that does not mean The Playboy Club is going to be completely scrubbed of their legendary founder. The smoothness of sixties-era Hugh Hefner can make a look and feel every once in awhile on the program, although it's unclear just how much we'll see of him, or if he'll involved he'll maintain the show's story lines.The Playboy Club decision signifies the 2nd major voice-over switcheroo on the new fall network show. As TV Guide Magazine's Kecks Exclusives first reported, Robert Wagner will not be playing the voice of Charlie on ABC's Charlie's Angels reboot in the end.Occur a sixties Chicago branch from the infamous Playboy clubs, The Playboy Club stars Eddie Cibrian like a guy running for district attorney. Amber Heard and David Krumholtz also star.The choice to withdraw on Hefner's narration is really a stylistic choice and unrelated towards the controversies all around the show. Groups such as the Parents Television Council are asking NBC affiliate marketers to not air the show - although only one, Salt Lake City's KSL, has elected to decrease it to date. (The market's My Network TV affiliate, KMYU, will run the show rather.)Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!