Callan McAuliffe joins 'Great Gatsby'

McAuliffeExclusive: Callan McAuliffe will have a youthful Jay Gatsby in Warner Bros.' "The Truly Amazing Gatsby" starring Leonardo DiCaprio.Baz Luhrman helms with Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton and Isla Fisher also aboard to star. Luhrman and Craig Pearce modified the script in the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic. Luhrman, Catherine Martin, Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher, Catherine Knapman and G. Mac Brown will produce through Bazmark Films and Red-colored Hour Entertainment.McAuliffe was most lately observed in DreamWorks' "I'm # 4.InchHe's repped by WME, Affirmative Entertainment and Felker Toczek Gellman Suddleson. Contact Justin Kroll at justin.kroll@variety.com

'Sin City 2' Enlists Oscar-Winning Author William Monahan for Script Work (Exclusive)

Kaira Barket/Getty Images Robert Rodriguez and Frank Burns are getting in certain Oscar-winning firepower to assist shape the script for Las Vegas 2, the follow up for their 2005 hit graphic novel adaptation. William Monahan, who won the Oscar for the best modified script for 2006's The Departed, continues to be hired to operate about the script, based on sources, adding to a draft completed lately by Burns. STORY: Robert Rodriguez on three dimensional, the 'Sin City' Follow up and 'Red Sonja' Momentum continues to be building recently behind the lengthy-in-development follow up to Las Vegas, which made a proper $100 million worldwide in 2005. Rodriguez, who co-directed the initial with Burns (who scripted and written the origin material), stated at Comic-Disadvantage in This summer that financing for that follow up have been arranged and shooting would begin the moment a script might be locked, possibly through the finish of the year. It isn't obvious which stars would return in the original, though gossips on fan websites have recommended a story featuring the figures performed by Mickey Rourke and Jessica Alba. Rodriguez indicated to THR throughout a job interview at Comic-Disadvantage that stars playing figures that made it the very first film are required to come back, which because a lot of it's shot in pieces against eco-friendly screen that arranging should not be too hard. THR's Complete Comic-Disadvantage Coverage Monahan has been around popular since taking home the Oscar. His active dossier includes the scripts for that hot Tom Cruise sci-fi project Oblivion, that is presently casting at Universal, in addition to a slew of other projects. As THR first reported on Friday, Monahan is also getting back together with his Departed director Martin Scorsese for any remake from the 1974 drama The Gambler. Monahan is repped by WME and Anonymous Content. Email: Borys.Package@thr.com Twitter: @Borys_Package Las Vegas Robert Rodriguez Frank Burns

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Paul Stanley One Live Kiss

Paul Stanley: ONE LIVE KISS, filmed during his first ever solo tour while supporting his widely acclaimed solo album LIVE TO WIN. ONE LIVE KISS, was shot at Chicago's House of Blues on the 2006 tour for LIVE TO WIN. Highlights include not only KISS favorites such as "Lick It Up," "Love Gun" and "Detroit Rock City" but also songs from his hit solo album. Backed by the amazing house band from the CBS shows "Rock Star: INXS" and "Rock Star:Supernova," Stanley ignites the stage as he performs his first new songs in more than eight years, including "Live To Win" (Top 10 Classic Rock on the Mediabase Chart), "Bulletproof" and "Lift." "Live To Win" was also pivotally featured in the Emmy-winning "South Park" episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft." The Star Child draws up every ounce of adrenaline and showmanship, leaving nothing behind but a crowd exploding into cheers at near rioting levels.

Roush Review: BBC America's The Hour

Dominic West Finding yourself in Mad Men withdrawal this summer? Missing those nattily dressed men and women of a bygone modernist age, smoking and drinking their way through glamorous-seeming media jobs as dark clouds loom in their personal and professional lives? Fret not. BBC America has come to the rescue, with a deluxe six-hour diversion set in the politically charged mid-1950s, titled The Hour - and few hours this summer have been so stimulating and absorbing. The problem here, typical of so much British TV, is there just aren't enough of these hours - though each one counts. And by the end of the twisty sixth hour, you'll be satisfied, if still craving more. Want more Matt Roush? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! Like Mad Men, this is sleek, sexy, smart, densely written and deliberately paced adult entertainment. The Hour delivers a slow but seductive burn, weaving Hitchcockian tension involving deadly international espionage into a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at a pioneering live TV news program (think a primitive 60 Minutes), set in the BBC's own studios. The cast is brilliant, forming a loose triangle that more than a few have already likened to an early version of Broadcast News. Hector (played by The Wire's Dominic West) is the slick, handsome, well-heeled anchor, his charisma barely masking his ambition. He begins a reckless flirtation with the show's young female producer Bel (Romola Garai, an unconventional knockout), risking both their careers. The third wheel is The Hour's rumpled hero: the brash upstart journalist Freddie (Ben Whishaw, wiry and fidgety and thoroughly disarming), who rebels against the fluff of then-prevalent newsreel journalism, rails against censorship and authority, and more selfishly, resents being denied Hector's spotlight. Freddie has a knack for getting under Hector's skin - partly because of his best-friendship with Bel and mostly because Hector sees in the unpolished Freddie the making of a better and more fearless journalist than he'll ever be. "How do you know exactly the right question to ask?" Hector wonders. "Because I'm not afraid of the answers," quips Freddie. Ah, if Freddie only knew where some of those answers might lead. In a running joke, Freddie fancies himself the "James" to Bel's "Moneypenny" - a James Bond-ian reference that inadvertently strikes close to home, when Freddie finds himself going rogue to pursue a sinister conspiracy that ensnares a dear childhood friend. (Early on in Freddie's quest, a crossword provides a pivotal clue, evoking memories of last summer's short-lived Rubicon. This one's much more fun.) Adding to the intrigue: rumors of a mole in the workplace, and the ominous presence of a smarmy government watchdog who haunts the BBC offices, attempting to keep a tight rein on The Hour's journalistic activism in a time of war. Set against a backdrop of political turmoil - the Suez Canal crisis in Egypt, the Soviet invasion of Budapest - The Hour works as both mystery and dark comedy of manners as the dramatic and romantic tensions escalate. It's thoroughly addictive, a tantalizing blend of cloak and dagger, deadlines and deceptions. These are hours very well spent. Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Palin docu fundraising for U.S. release

Nick Broomfield has placed his documentary "Sarah Palin: You Betcha!," on the crowd funding site Kickstarter to raise $30,000 for the documentary's upcoming North American release campaign. The docu will make its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and will be distributed this fall -- with specific release dates and markets to be announced shortly. Broomfield made the announcment Friday. "This film was made for the American people and Kickstarter now offers them a chance to be a part of the distribution process to directly support the documentary's national roll-out," he said. "We need help getting this out so voters gain a true understanding of the person who is asking for their political support." Content announced on Aug. 3 that it had acquired international rights to "You Betcha!" except for Channel 4's U.K. TV rights. Cassian Elwes is repping the U.S. rights for the project, which hasn't yet been set with a distributor. "Sarah Palin: You Betcha!" is described as a journey across the icy midwinter snows of Alaska to meet Palin's school friends, family and Republican colleagues in order to try and discover the real Palin. Broomfield's credits include "Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer," "Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam" and "Kurt and Courtney." He was awarded the BAFTA Lifetime Achievement Award for Contribution to Documentary. Broomfield directed "Sarah Palin: You Betcha!" with Joan Churchill. The film is produced by Marc Hoeferlin ("Battle for Haditha"). Another Palin documentary, "The Undefeated," was rolled out last month in limited released by ARC Entertainment. It will be available starting Sept. 1 on pay-per-view and video-on-demand; a DVD launch will include with a special edition for Walmart stores. In its opening weekend July 15-17 in 10 cities, the film averaged about $6,500 per screen. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

Has the PG-13 Rating Outlived Its Usefulness?

If you see that a movie is rated PG-13, what does that tell you? If you're a parent, it may suggest to you that the film is OK for your kids, or at least your older kids. If you're a kid, it may look like a wink, telling you that, despite the approval of your parents, it's still the edgiest content you can see at the cineplex without the movie earning a restrictive R. In other words, PG-13 is a marketing tool. What it's not: an "advance cautionary [warning] to parents, so that they can make informed decisions about which films their children see." Unfortunately, that's the exact purpose it's supposed to serve, according to the MPAA ratings board. The ineffectuality of the PG-13 rating has become especially apparent in recent months, argues Fred Schruers at The Wrap, who cites the increasingly violent content of such recent PG-13 movies as 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes,' 'Fast Five,' and 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2.' Given such content creep, how can anyone take PG-13 seriously anymore? Sure, the rating is accompanied on the poster or in newspaper ads by tiny print listing very briefly what sort of content (violence, language, adult themes) has earned a movie its PG-13 rating. But does the PG-13 give you any indication that 'Apes' will feature scenes of electrocution, animals being tortured, dismemberment and full-on battle between apes and mounted police? Or that 'Potter' will be marked by nonstop grimness and a high body count and show the corpses of several beloved characters? Does it tell you that 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon' features frequent profanity (but not in a sexual context, so that apparently makes it OK for kids) and extreme violence, including pulverized bodies and exploding skulls? Does it tell you that 'Limitless' will show its hero stabbing a gangster in the eye, then killing another gangster and drinking his blood? Schruers notes that, while PG-13 movies are showing such extreme violence and profanity, an otherwise tame and even educational movie like 'The King's Speech' gets an R for one scene with a whole lot of F-bombs that are actually crucial to the plot. Which only seems to prove that the ratings system as a whole is marked by misplaced priorities. It certainly seems true, as many parents and filmmakers have complained, that the ratings board is a lot more lenient toward violence than it is toward sexual content. Of course, that has been true for years. There's also plenty of evidence (as shown in 'This Film Is Not Yet Rated,' Kirby Dick's 2006 documentary about the ratings board), that the MPAA is more lenient toward films by the major studios (who pay the MPAA's salaries via membership dues) than toward films by independent distributors. After all, the studios depend on the PG-13 rating to sell big-budget films to kids and parents, and when hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake, people tend to do what they think their bosses want, without even having to be asked. That PG-13 is a marketing tool is nothing new; that was built into its DNA. The rating was created at the urging of Steven Spielberg in 1984, after he was stung by parental complaints over the violence and gross-out content of 'Gremlins' and 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.' As a solution, PG-13 didn't actually restrict any kids from going to the theater (like the R did, or later, the NC-17), it merely warned parents that a movie might be inappropriate for younger kids -- while telling older kids it was still OK for them. Schruers notes this part of the PG-13 rating's history, but he ignores the fact that there was a time when PG content was as violent and profane as PG-13 content is now. Back in 1975, Spielberg's 'Jaws,' extremely scary and bloody, was rated PG. A year later, the potty-mouthed kids of 'The Bad News Bears' also earned a PG. (I should add that I saw both movies as a pre-teen and somehow managed to avoid being emotionally scarred or adding frequent profanity to my vocabulary.) Excerpt from 'Jaws': So there needed to be some intermediate rating (as exists in other countries throughout the world) between PG (not suitable for the youngest children) and R (not suitable for any kids under 17 unless they're with their parents). But the PG-13 hasn't really filled the bill. Now, it's little more than what PG was in the 1970s, a way to squeeze as much violence and profanity into a movie as possible without earning an R. Read the descriptions of what each rating means at the ratings board's website. The description for PG-13 is the longest and most complicated, and the one filled with the most hedging over context and exceptions that might make extreme content excusable. Unfortunately, short of the same mass outrage by parents (and a nudge from someone as powerful as Spielberg) of the sort seen 27 years ago, the ratings board isn't likely to make any improvements. Next year, Schruers notes, we'll see 'The Hunger Games,' in which teens fight each other to the death as televised mass entertainment. The movie's not even finished yet, but can anyone doubt that it will be rated PG-13? And that rating will tell you what, exactly? Is PG-13 an Informative Assessment of How Extreme a Movie's Content Is?YesNoVote Follow Gary Susman on Twitter @garysusman.

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Apes rise to box office summit

Just when you thought the blockbuster season was beginning to run out of steam, another summer smash comes along and proves there's still plenty of money to be taken before the nights start drawing in.Despite conservative expectations, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes has topped the US box office with an opening weekend of$54 million, a $33 million margin over nearest competitor The Smurfs.With an opening day of just under $20 million, Apes had already comfortably surpassed the opening Friday of that other big sci-fi release, Super 8, but its total weekend gross had initially been expected to come in somewhere closer to $40 million than $50 million.Elsewhere, Cowboys & Aliens continued to plod along, a $16million weekend leaving it in third place, while fellow comic-book flick Captain Americatook another $13 million to keep fifth spot. Sandwiched between those two in fourth is body-swap comedy The Change-Up, whichonlymanaged a disappointing$13.5 million on its opening weekend.The Harry Potter juggernaut continues to roll onwards, with the Gringotts vaults swelled by a further $12 million.Crazy, Stupid, Love took seventh spot with a similar haul.Friends With Benefits continued to crawl ever closer to the $50 million mark withafurther$4.7 million in the coffers, whileHorrible Bosses pushed its overall take over the $100 million mark with a $4.6 million weekend.Finally,Transformers 3 completes the top10 with a $3 million death rattle.

Kaley Cuoco: 5 Things to Know About the Teen Choice Awards Host

Kaley Cuoco has lived her life on screen since she was a child, first appearing in the TV movie Quicksand: No Escape with Donald Sutherland. This Sunday she follows in the footsteps of Katy Perry, Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus and David Spade as she hosts the 11th Annual Teen Choice Awards on Fox. Here are five facts about The Big Bang Theory and 8 Simple Rules actress you may not have known.our editor recommendsKaley Cuoco to miss 'Big Bang Theory' tapingRob Lowe, Kaley Cuoco to Star in Lifetime Movie 1. Cuoco was not originally cast as Penny for The Big Bang Theory.Canadian actress Amanda Walsh played the female lead-then named Katie-in the show's original pilot. CBS initially rejected the project, but the network finally picked up the show when Cuoco joined the cast for the second pilot. 2. She dated The Big Bang Theory costar Johnny Galecki for almost two years-and was able to keep it a secret until after they broke up. She first publicly spoke of the relationship in an interview with CBS Watch Magazine, and revealed that they've been able to remain friends-despite the awkwardness of playing your real-life ex-boyfriend's love interest on television. "At the wrap party he gave me a huge hug and I was like, 'I'm really proud of us,'" Cuoco told the magazine in regards to their mature breakup. "And he was like, 'I know, me too. We didn't kill each other, or kill other people. We made it.'" 3. She played "little Ellen" to Ellen DeGeneres' character on her hit show Ellen. When she was 11, Cuoco played a younger Ellen Morgan in a flashback at summer camp.Years later, DeGeneres welcomed Cuoco as a guest on her daytime talk show. 4. She snagged a Teen Choice Award for herself. In 2003, Cuoco won The Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Breakout Actress for her role in ABC's hit comedy 8 Simple Rules. After the series' star, John Ritter, passed away, Cuoco's character Bridget initially felt guilty for the last words she spoke to her TV dad: "I hate you" (he didn't allow her to borrow the car). The show ran for two more seasons after Ritter's death. 5. Cuoco is playing Rob Lowe's wife in the upcoming TV movie: The Drew Peterson Story.Cuoco will portray Stacy Peterson, Illinois' police sergeant Drew Peterson's fourth wife who went missing in 2007. Peterson is now in prison awaiting trial related to the mysterious death of his third wife in 2004. Kaley recently hinted to a crush on her attractive costar: on August 1 she tweeted, "Officially done playing @roblowe 's wife. Ah why can't this dream continue! #sodontwannawakeup." Watch Cuoco host the Teen Choice Awards on FOX, Sunday at 8 p.m. EST. Related Topics Kaley Cuoco Teen Choice 2011