Len Blavatnik's Warner Music Closing in on EMI's Artists Division (Report)

LONDON - Warner Music seems like favorite to win control of EMI's recorded music business after entering a deal which can be between $1.5-$1.6 billion for your division, with BMG Rights/ KKR investing in an offer between $1.8 billion and $2 billion for EMI's posting arm, according to Bloomberg.our editor recommends'Glee' Cast Joins Viral Star Keenan Cahill for Katy Perry TrackApple Posts Jobs Memorial Video Featuring Al Gore, Coldplay, Norah Manley (Video) PHOTOS: Grammys: Top Must-See Moments Once the deal encounters, it could see Warner taking control from the catalog of artists including Coldplay and Katy Perry, while BMG Rights - a partnership between Bertelsmann and equity house KKR - would control the posting catalog of artists including David Bowieand The Arctic Apes. Stating people near the deal, Bloomberg mentioned that EMI-owner Citigroup remains searching at options to separate the British music company - that have shown this kind of disastrous $6 billion replace on maverick investor Guy Handsin 2007. Citigroup needed control of the organization after Hands' invesment firm Terra Firma overdue on its financial financial loans while using bank. Along the way he triggered a slew of artists including Radiohead, Paul McCartney as well as the Moving Gems to go away the label dispirited with the Terra Firma management approach. PHOTOS: Billboard Music Honours Nominees Bloomberg mentioned that Warner Music - which was bought by Len Blavatnik'sAccess Industries for $3.3 billion in June - remains settling around EMI's pension liabilities. Meanwhile, Reuters reported the offer announcement thought likely presently has been pressed toward inside a couple of days. Reuters mentioned Warner Music was now in "pole position" after Universal Music dropped in the auction, apparently concerned the pension costs would overweigh the sale. PHOTOS: American Music Honours: Red-colored-colored Carpet A merge between EMI and Warner Music remains discussed for your better part of the past decade and could yet create a global player in a position to coping with Universal and also the new the new sony. Related Subjects Worldwide Warner Group EMI

Final Muppets Parody Teaser Is Here

Ready for Breaking Prawn?All good things must come to an end, we suppose and so it's with heavy heart and light kidneys we announce that the Muppet gang has decided that they're done with parody trailers for the new film. Well, after this latest, mega-meta-mash up, which you can see below!Yes, after the likes of the Hangover spoof, the Green Lantern nod, and the epic Pig With The Froggy Tattoo, now comes one that not only acknowledges that Team Muppets have been doing these for a while now, but also manages to spoof their own parody-driven tendencies. Oh, and still finds time for quick winks at Paranormal Activity, Happy Feet, Puss In Boots and Breaking Dawn.One of the best trailer campaigns to happen along in yonks, this has made us all the more excited to see the pic. Which, in case you forgot, finds dedicated Muppet fan Walter, big brother Gary (Jason "The" Segel) and his girlfriend Mary (Amy Adams) rounding up the fuzzy gang with Kermit's help so they can put on a telethon to save their old theatre from demolition at the hands of nasty oil baron Tex Richman (Chris Cooper).While lucky American types get to see the final product over Thanksgiving (the release date is November 23, to be exact), we have to wait until February 10, 2012. Which, as we think you'll agree, is simply Not Fair.

'Lost Coast' on trail of Bigfoot

Bigfoot has been seen as -- no less than on "The Lost Coast Tapes," a found-footage p.o.v. project that has been completed and continues purchase within the approaching American Film Market via lately minted Continental Media.Story's occur 2011 with found footage of countless investigative journalists who disappear after going to an internet site in Northern California to guarantee the invention from the dead Sasquatch.Continental Media founder Matthew Shreder mentioned, "Mixing the p.o.v.-horror format while using folklore of Bigfoot, this completed film will definitely gain traction getting a worldwide audience.""The Lost Coast Tapes" stars Came Rausch ("Battleship), Wealthy McDonald ("Generation Kill"), Noah Weisberg, Frank Ashmore and model Ashley Wood. The feature is produced by Chevez Frazier of latest Breed Entertainment and Chris Beal. Corey Grant directs in the script by John Kelsey & Bryan O'Cain.Shreder formerly labored for IM Global. He's became a member of with James Andrew Felts, a CBS TV distribution vet. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

New 'Great Gatsby' Photos: Tobey Maguire Channels 'Spider-Man'

Another day, another batch of set photos from 'The Great Gatsby.' Earlier this week, you you saw the exterior of George Wilson's autoshop -- the location of Myrtle's unfortunate car accident. (Spoilers, but read a book.) Now, there are pictures of stars Tobey Maguire and Joel Edgerton in their best Prohibition-era threads. The images show them riding the train, standing in front of a white picket fence and, in Maguire's case, attacking a railroad worker as if he were on the set of 'Spider-Man.' You can check out the whole collection in the gallery ahead. 'Gatsby' stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Maguire as Nick Carraway, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan, Edgerton as Tom Buchanan and Isla Fisher as Myrtle. 'The Great Gatsby' is set to open on Christmas Day 2012. 'The Great Gatsby' Gallery See All Moviefone Galleries » [Photo: SNAPPER/bauergriffinonline.com] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

'Rum Diary' Star Aaron Eckhart on Booze, Cigars and Johnny Depp's Entourage

Director Bruce Robinson stated when Aaron Eckhart had not decided to play ambitious real-estate developer Sanderson in 'The Rum Diary,' "we'd be casting." Within the movie, plenty of rum is swilled and cigars are smoked. Works out Eckhart only indulges in a single of individuals vices in tangible existence: "I acquired hooked on cigars while causeing this to be movie," he accepted to Moviefone. Oddly enough, he was among the couple of who wasn't illuminating in the movie's press conference, where The Actor-brad Pitt smoked five hands-folded cigarettes in quick succession, moderator Elvis Mitchell drawn on the huge stogie and Robinson smoked and drank a beer. In comparison, Eckhart states things were pretty tame around the Puerto Rican set. Your character includes a excellent spread around the beach within this movie. We shot it within the beach in Puerto Rico, that is great because this is where it really happens. Frequently nowadays, you decide to go somewhere like Eastern Europe and that'll double for NY or La or whatever. It's nice to go somewhere since the story happens there. Made it happen appear like lots of Puerto Rico is unchanged since Hunter S. Thompson was there? You can go for both. When you are inland, you are able to certainly state that. I was in San Juan. On my small slow days, I'd drive my vehicle and go surfing and merely at random undergo cities. You would not realize that individuals places have been lived on. However, you would be driving along and you'd check this out huge corporation and you would be like, "What's that?" Out in the center of nowhere, IBM provides this massive place and contains its very own runway and all sorts of the local people work on IBM. It's kind of an unexpected little island since it has got the American influence and contains the indigenous and they've just a little war happening there between your two. As well as in this you play an evil developer. Yes, I am an evil developer. [Laughs] And they are getting their very own way. I believe Puerto Rico's being... obviously I'm not sure what it really was like before, however, you see sand and water and blue sky and they are looking to get some vacationers there. It's kind of the polar complete opposite of what Johnny's doing. It's like oil and water. I've found it interesting he has an issue with my corruptedness and my coercion, but he's not a problem stealing my lady. [Bursts out laughing] So who's less principled? Right, it's like, 'So much for the morality!' There is a little hypocrisy there. What's it like creating a movie with Johnny? I did not know him before. I acquired a phone call and went and met Bruce and i believe that they seen a number of Sanderson in certain of my other movies. And So I was pleased to complement and use them. Did the set find yourself getting as crazy as anything within the movie? No, Johnny and Bruce stored a very awesome, even set. But everybody had labored for Johnny for like ten years. He brings exactly the same men on, makeup, crew. Everyone was totally with debt to Johnny. They are saying such things as, 'Johnny put my children through school,' serious stuff. The very first day we came on, Johnny was like, ' Hey John, how's Betty? How's the little one?A I began feeling bad about myself which i did not know who everybody was, however I recognized that they have all done six movies approximately with Johnny. Is an objective of yours, to possess your personal crew now? God, I'd like to, since you must see sets sometimes which are during these desolate places. It might be so nice to create movies with people you're friends with. Clint Eastwood will it, Johnny will it. It is simply not achievable within this era unless of course you are number 1. Have you spend time much with him? We hung out throughout filming. We'd lots of good laughs. I like Johnny's company. No, I do not spend time an excessive amount of after and that i obtain the feeling he does not either. It's kind of awkward when that occurs. For me personally, I'd rather go home and lead an ordinary existence, since the anticipation are that you are all there only for work. But I have been a solitary type of dude. So have you got a favorite rum drink? Well, after i drank, I'd drink rum and whatever you desired to pour. I usually loved ... before I stated Piña Colada, however i got in danger for your. They think it is too fruity. They wanted me to express Cuba Libre. What is the drink using the mint? Mojito. Yeah, I have had among individuals before. Individuals are great. You do not drink any longer? No, it has been eight or nine years. Healthy for you, that's great. However I did start smoking cigars throughout this movie. I began smoking them with this movie and that i haven't stopped. I have been smoking cigars every single day. Are you planning to stop? Or will it fit it all of your approaching roles? I play Frankenstein next, so perhaps Frankenstein may have a cigar through his throat [such as the classic neck bolt that Karloff had], and that i will not even need to inhale. Which will be hot. [Laughs.] Read our exclusive interview with Eckhart about his role in 'I, Frankenstein.' [Photo: Film District] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED

RA.ONE: Film Review

A Bollywood superhero was bound to be an amalgam of everything from the world of super beings -- from those men in funny costumes who fly, swing and bound through American movie screens to gravity-defining Chinese warriors, Hong Kong martial artists and videogame pyrotechnics. So ladies, gentlemen and most especially boys and girls, Shah Rukh Khan gives you G.One, the superhero dad of the sci-fi film RA.ONE, boasting the largest budget in Indian film history and rolling out this Diwali weekend, the biggest Indian holiday, known in the West as the Festival of Lights. The film, directed by Anubhav Sinha, is gloriously silly, with stunts, CG animation and music numbers bursting out all over yet its beating heart lies in a commonplace story of a family and most especially a father and son who don't understand one another. Oscar Hammerstein II once said something to the effect that you have to believe in whiskers on kittens and warm woolen mittens to get away with writing about such corny banalities in a lyric and so Shah -- SRK as he is known to billions of fans -- really does believe in family values and the power of cinema. You don't have to be an enthusiast of Bollywood to embrace RA.ONE, but it sure would help. The "item" numbers and cultural references come fast and furious with little concession to Western audiences unfamiliar with South Asian cinema. But -- sign of our times -- the videogame milieu and computer technology that back up the fantasy will score big with youngsters across the globe. And the stunts and FX work -- the final credit crawl lasts over 10 minutes -- move Indian cinema to a new level of technological expertise. Reportedly costing over $25 million, the film was originally scheduled to roll out in June. However, the release was postponed to Diwali due to extensive post-production work and a 3D conversion. The print under review here is a 2D version -- which is what will screen in most of the world's cinemas -- as that's all that was available in Los Angeles prior to SRK's appearance in the city for a gala presentation following premieres in London and Toronto on consecutive nights. The film starts with a rush in a dreamscape in which a superhero (Khan) races to the rescue of a damsel held captive by a villain (affording Bollywood stars Priyanka Chopra andSanjay Dutt with crowd-pleasing cameos). This proves to be a daydream of a school youngster, Prateek (Armaan Verma), whose own dad is a dull -- at least in his eyes -- computer geek who designs video games for a London game tycoon. Khan, dressed in a very bad curly wig and effecting a broad South Indian accent complete with stereotypical eating mannerisms and occasional slips into the Tamil language, plays Shekhar Subramanium, who will never be a hero to his son. Even his Michael Jackson Bad-era impersonation fails to impress and nothing Shekhar's adoring Punjabi wife Sonia (Kareena Kapoor, herself a major star) does will shake Prateek's belief he needs a new dad. In desperation, the nerdy dad accedes to his son's request - to create a videogame villain "who only wins," a complete badass that cannot be defeated by any player. This player is dubbed by Shekhar's design team Random Access One or Ra.One. The superhero who will attempt to defeat this super villain, with little odds for success, is named Good One or G.One and is shaped in the image of his creator, Shekhar. (The explanation passes quickly but Ra.One is a loose play upon Raavan, the demon king in Hindu mythology, and G.One comes close to the Hindi word jeevan or life.) In an elaborate and overlong sequence that owes much to Universal's '30s era Frankenstein movies, the computer lab that produces this game runs amok as the villain becomes sentient and ultimately escapes the video world to roam among men and destroy at will. He not only kills Shekhar's Chinese colleague Akaashi (Hong Kong-born martial artist Tom Wu) but confronts and kills Shekhar himself. This is the film's emotional turning point. Shekhar's sudden widow and son must now confront all they miss in their late husband and father but also deal with his virtual replacement. For the son and Shekhar's computer team realize the only way to combat Ra.One is by freeing G.One from the game as well. So Shekhar's self-designed, lookalike warrior - Khan minus the bad wig - moves into the real world to protect his family, targeted by Ra.One, and figure out the villain's latest guise, from Akaashi to any number of assumed identities. (Ra.One is mostly played by Arjun Rampal, a well-known Bollywood actor.) Major sequences include a demolition-derby chase through London city-center streets and an airport parking lot brawl to a runaway train in Mumbai that causes major CG destruction to the Victoria Terminus and a final confrontation between the two virtual warriors in a world that moves increasingly into videogame terrain. Fittingly, Prateek teams up with his dad's alter ego in this duel. Music numbers are nothing you would expect in the Terminator orMatrix films - both quoted from liberally - but are de rigueur in a Bollywood film. However, here they actually suit story and character purposes, even at one point poignantly expressing the grief of a wife and son over the death of the father. The acting pushes emotions as one would expect from a movie based on a fictional videogame that will most certainly become a real one. The child delivers the most realistic and effecting performance. Khan in his two roles is genuinely sweet if over the top in each. Kapoor is gorgeous and beguiling as the loving, then grieving wife while Rampal makes a splendid villain. During the credit roll, the film makes a point of showing a behind-the-scenes EPK of the stunts and effects, driving home dual points. One is that SRK did, as advertised, his own stunts. And two, that India can compete in the big leagues of stunts and fx. SRK, whose company Red Chilies Entertainment made the film with Eros International, has poured a lot of money into creating his own Mumbai special-effects house and RA.ONE is nothing if not a calling card to the film world. So RA.ONE nicely serves two masters - good family values and good capitalist instincts. And as is traditional at Diwali, the effigy of Raavan gets torched as good triumphs over evil. Opens: October 26 (Eros International) Production companies: Eros International and Red Chilis Entertainment present a Winford Production Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Armaan Verma, Shahana Goswami, Tom Wu, Satish Shah Director: Anubhav Sinha Screenwriters: David Benullo, Kanika Dhillon, Niranjan Iyengar, Mushtaq Sheikh Story by: Anubhav Sinha Producer: Gauari Khan Executive producers: Anil Sable, Rajan Vanmali,, Swapna David, Prashant Shah Director of photography: Nicola Pecorini Production designers: Sabu Cyril, Marcus Wookey Music: Vishal & Shekhar Lead visual effects supervisor: Haresh Hingorani Costume designers: Manish Malhotra, Anaita Shroff, Naresh Rohira, Robert Lever Editors: Martin Walsh, Sanjay Sharma No rating, 156 minutes International Asia Shah Rukh Khan Bollywood

Abu, Boy of Adam (Adaminte makan Abu)

An Allen's Media presentation. Created by Salim Ahamed, Ashraf Bedi. Directed, compiled by Salim Ahamed.With: Salim Kumar, Zarina Wahab, Mukesh, Kalabha van Mani, Suraj Venjaranmood, Thambi Antoni, Sasi Kalinga, Nedumudi Venu. (Malayalam dialogue)The method to Mecca is really a lengthy and worthy one out of "Abu, Boy of Adam," an unfailingly sincere if significantly underpowered debut feature from author-director Salim Ahamed that balances measured analysis from the Islamic belief with larger concerns of mortality and community. Planning the mission of the seniors couple in rural Malabar to become listed on the annual Hajj pilgrimage, the easy narrative comes with an O. Henry-style moral architecture but wants for human detail. Selected as India's foreign-language Oscar submission after signing up strongly in your own home within the summer time, the lushly lensed pic should find supportive audiences around the niche festival circuit. Less an extensive study of religious devotion (or indeed crisis) than the usual universal tale of charitable organisation refused and dreams deferred, "Abu, Boy of Adam" was apparently inspired by Ahamed's own previous experience like a tour operator: The strain between the fee for the Mecca trip and also the feeling of spiritual obligation to really make it is most probably no unusual dilemma for a lot of Muslim folk. Opening with possibly one a lot of picture-postcard shots from the verdant Kerala Condition landscape, the pic quickly determines the narrow social radius from the title character (the arrestingly blue-eyed Salim Kumar), a septuagenarian perfume-seller quite happy with his modest earnings and quiet marriage to wife Aisu (Zarina Wahab), but estranged from his unseen adult boy. No explanation emerges, but odds are his unflagging piety might have something related to it. With little to depart when it comes to a legacy, Abu's lone remaining ambition would be to attend the Hajj, with Aisu with you, before he dies. The financial and bureaucratic obstacles involved, however, are manifold: Passport programs are interrupted by spying police authorities, while offers of financial the help of assorted buddies and acquaintances (including his kindly tour operator) are frequently switched lower by Abu themself. The wealthiest irony in Ahamed's script is the fact that it's strict religious behavior training, instead of mere personal pride, that inspires his refusal. Ahamed informs his story with clearness and empathy, but little humor or grit: The film includes a inclination to be put off by overt dramatic conflict, as Abu's gentle decency sees him escape or mollify one practical or personal opponent to another. As a result, he's a far more admirable protagonist than he's a compelling one, and Kumar, most widely known in your area for comic roles, is really a committed but slightly over-deliberate presence within the lead. Chief pleasures of the humble production lie within the confident lensing of veteran Indian d.p. Madhu Ambat, who's given unchecked permission to wallow within the Malabar countryside's iridescent sunrises and acidity-eco-friendly blankets of foliage it's left more towards the literal storytelling rather than the plush filmmaking to help remind us of Abu and Aisu's struggles.Camera (color), Madhu Ambat editor, Vijai Sankar music, Isaac Thomas Kottukapally production designer, Jotish Shankar costume designer, Razak Thiroor seem (Dolby Digital), Alith A. George. Examined at London Film Festival (World Cinema), March. 23, 2011. Running time: 99 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Mickey Rourke has run out of Expendables 2

Mickey Rourke might have cut his usual fee for that Expendables like a favour to his old friend Sylvester Stallone, however it appears his goodwill is not likely to extend towards the follow up.Rourke leaves the project while he wasn't offered enough money to really make it. We are formally crushed.It is a MASSIVE shame, Rourke was undoubtedly the very best factor in Expendables - his speech about his amount of time in Bosnia involved such great acting it felt strangely unnatural. Sure, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme and perhaps Nicolas Cage and Travolta Qantas Video is going to be joining the relaxation from the Expendables crew for that follow-up, but it is simply not really exactly the same without Mickey.Rourke will make something known as Seven Psychopathsinstead. It comes down to a film writer who kidnaps a gangster's dog.Oh, Mickey, exactly what a pity.

Artificial Eye on 'Trishna' rights

LONDON -- Brit indie distrib Artificial Eye has snapped up U.K. and Irish rights for Michael Winterbottom's "Trishna." Pic, starring Freida Pinto and Riz Ahmed, is a contempo re-imagining of Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Ubervilles" set in India, that tells the story of the son of a wealthy property developer who begins a troubled relationship with the daughter of an autorickshaw owner. Acquisition comes ahead of the pic's U.K. preem at the London Film Festival next week. Deal was negotiated by Bankside Films' head of marketing and sales Stephen Kelliher and Artificial Eye CEO Louisa Dent. Winterbottom and Melissa Parmenter produced the pic, which was financed by Bankside and the now shuttered U.K. Film Council in conjunction with VTR Media Investments, Bob Film Sweden and Film i Vast with the support of the Swedish Film Institute. Pic preemed at the Toronto Film Festival last month. Artificial Eye is planning a spring release for the pic in Blighty. Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com

'Avengers' Trailer Assembles Online

FROM MTV SPLASH PAGE: "Avengers" fans, it's finally time. At long last, Earth's Mightiest Heroes have joined forces for your extended viewing pleasure... and boy, do these guys look good. The first trailer for "Marvel's The Avengers" made its way online today at Apple after weeks, months, and even years of endless anticipation. But did the trailer live up to all of our understandably high expectations? Well, let's think about that for a second Watch "The 'Avengers' Trailer: Five Things We Want To See" Read the full story at MTV Splash Page!

Conrad Murray Trial Pales in Ratings to Amanda Knox, Casey Anthony for HLN

HLN has stuck towards the commitment of running almost-constant coverage of Conrad Murray's Michael Jackson murder trial.our editor recommendsCasey Anthony Trial Propels HLN to Finest-Rated Month EverConrad Murray Situation To Air Non-Stop On HLN Jurors in Conrad Murray Trial Won't See Michael Jackson Tour Announcement, Judge Rules PHOTOS: 10 TV Tests That Shook The Earth CNN's sister network, which introduced its programming plan in September, is trying to recreate the the ratings success it saw throughout its non-stop coverage in the Casey Anthony trial this summer season. VIDEO: Dr. Conrad Murray Trial Continues With ER Physician Testimony But, while using trial two-days in, HLN has only seen a little bump within the ratings. The network's prime-time audience throughout the initial week in the trailwas only up two percent in the September average viewership. It's daytime increase was bigger, up 24%. STORY: Michael Jackson's Chef States Conrad Murray was 'Flustered,' 'Screaming' After Singer Died Alternatively, through the sensationalist Casey Anthony trial, the network saw an increase of 86% in general audiences due to its year-over-year gains combined using its finest-rated month ever in June. In addition Amanda Knox's overturned guilty verdict for your murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher, which was introduced March. 3, received immense media attention, with ABC, CBS and NBC stifling their programming to supply what is the news. STORY: Existence After Casey Anthony Verdict: What Is Going To HLN Cover Next The other day, jurors heard a four-minute tape of Jackson, whose speech was slurred, speaking about his "discomfort." The tape was recorded monthly before his June 25, 2009 dying. Taxation UCLA er physician Richelle Cooper, who attempted to resuscitate the singer upon his arrival tomorrow, also stated. Cooper mentioned Murray never stated he'd given Jackson the anesthetic propofol. Related Subjects Michael Jackson HLN Casey Anthony Conrad Murray

Telespan, Senator team for 'Allende'

SITGES, The country -- Telespan 2000, a part of Spain's Vertice 360 group, is joining with Germany's Senator Ing. to create political action thriller "Allende, 11 p septiembre." Senator has additionally taken distribution privileges for Germany. Compiled by Aitor Escalayo, "Allende" marks a big change of direction for Spaniard Miguel Marti, up to now a comedy director ("Slam," "School's Out, "Sexy Killer"). Happening on Sept. 11, 1973, "Allende" activates the final hrs of Chilean leader Salvador Allende, spent at Chile's Moneda Structure because it had been shelled by General Augusto Pinochet's troops. It will likely be like Oliver Hirschbiegel's "Downfall," stated Telespan producer Tomas Cimadevilla. Vet The spanish language actor Juan Diego ("The seventh Day") plays Allende. Telespan is within talks with Daniel Bruehl to limn a German docu filmmaker who shot Chile's Air Pressure bombing the Moneda, Cimadevilla stated at Spain's Sitges festival. Costing Euros4 million ($5.4 million) -- greater bracket by The spanish language standards along with a huge plan for Chile -- "Allende" comes June 2012. Telespan aims to structure "Allende" like a The country-Germany-France-Chile co-production, Cimadevilla stated. The "Allende" announcement may come as Telespan world preemed its latest production, Juan Martinez Moreno's comedy "Bet on Werewolves," competing at Sitges. Created with Spain's Vaca Films, and offered by Vertice Sales, it received an upbeat reaction. "Allende" reps Vertice's first Latin American-designed feature because the region's film marketplaces develops tremendously, while Spain's languishes. "You want to open towards the worldwide marketplaces, more particularly Latino marketplaces," Cimadevilla stated. Vertice already has offices in Buenos Aires and Miami, along with a 50% stake in Miami-based Powwow ("El lider p la manada"), a TV producer for Latin America. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com

Cabler ID renews 'Mobster'

Discovery Communications true-crime cabler Analysis Discovery has restored "I Married a Mobster" for any second season of 13 segs, set to air in 2012. Series features memories through the spouses of mobsters during the day-to-day existence inside organized crime the show also follows the ladies to the current day, where they have needed to move ahead after their husbands' actions swept up together. Series is created by Kaufman Films for ID. Contact Mike Thielman at mike.thielman@variety.com

James Marsdens Wife Files For Divorce

First Released: October 1, 2011 2:11 PM EDT Credit: FilmMagic Caption James Marsden and Lisa Linde get through to the La premiere of HOP held at Universal Galleries Hollywood in Universal City, Calif., on March 27, 2011LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- James Marsden may soon be considered a single guy. The X-Males and Hay Dogs stars wife, Lisa Linde, has declared divorce after 11 many years of marriage, Access Hollywood has confirmed. Based on TMZ, that was first to report the divorce news, Lisa reported irreconcilable variations in the court documents filed on September 23, and it is seeking spousal support, in addition to joint legal and physical custody of the children from the couples two children. It was a mutual decision, a repetition for that actor told Access on Saturday. They're devoted to raising their kids together and remain great buddies. James, 38, married Lisa, daughter of country songwriter Dennis Linde (who composed Elvis Presleys 1972 hit, Burning Love), in This summer 2000. They've two children together Jack, 10, and Mary, 6. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.