Dick Van Dyke Marries His Makeup Artist

During Castle's recent two-parter, Rick's former muse dropped a bombshell just before she was seemingly killed.Jennifer Beals on her Castle role: "I wasn't interested in a catfight"Sophia (guest star Jennifer Beals) hinted to Castle (Nathan Fillion) that his father may have had ties to the CIA, which would explain both his absence from Castle's life as well as the ease with which Castle was able to shadow a federal agent. The question remains: Is Sophia - who was revealed to actually be a Russian sleeper agent - being honest? "I think he is evaluating whether Sophia was telling him the truth," creator and executive producer Andrew W. Marlowe tells TVGuide.com.... Read More > Other Links From TVGuide.com Jennifer BealsNathan FillionStana KaticCastleAndrew W. Marlowe

Fuentes-Leon preps 'Vanished Elephant'

GUADALAJARA -- Helmer-scribe Javier Fuentes-Leon is preparing "The Disappeared Elephant," the follow-as much as his debut feature, "Undertow," which won Sundance's World Dramatic Competition Audience Award this year. The film noir thriller activates crime novel scribe Edo Celeste, whose girlfriend disappeared years before. Around the fifth anniversary of her disappearance, he receives an envelope with photos that appear a part of a collage, clues as to the happened to her. The pic was initially occur L.A., and can now lense in Peru, placing aspects of classic film noir from the backdrop of Lima, "a damp, sprawling, chaotic urban area," Fuentes-Leon stated, "full of movement, excitement and sharp contrasts between your haves and also have-nots." Moving in the roads of Lima to Peru's Paracas beaches, " 'Elephant' asks constantly: What's fiction and what's reality?," and explores "the creative process, and also the loss and avoid which remains when something close or personal escapes us," Fuentes-Leon described at Mexico's Guadalajara festival. The pic's title describes an elephant-formed rock-formation off Paracas, which flattened and disappeared in to the sea throughout Peru's 2007 earthquake. Skedded to shoot fall 2012, "Elephant" is to establish at Lima's Elcalvo Films. Fuentes-Leon and Colombia's Dynamo, a producer on "Undertow," will work together to boost the financing and also to result in the film. Peru's Oscar submission, "Undertow" was acquired for U.S. distribution through the Film Collaborative for theatrical and Wolfe Delivering for DVD. The pic would be a revenue achievement for Shoreline, and made a sturdy 155,836 ($208,976) in The country. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Current TV To Go In AM News Competition With Radios Bill Press And Stephanie Burns

They’ll join the road-up at the begining of springwith Currentofferingsimulcasts of the radio shows.Full Court Press: The Balance Press Show will run from 6:00 to 9:00 AM ET, andTalking Liberally: The Stephanie Burns Show will followto noon. Here’s the network’s release: NY, NY March 5, 2012 Current TV today introduced the launch of the new morning news block featuring live simulcasts from the radio programs The Balance Press Show from 6am-9am ET and also the Stephanie Burns Show from 9am-12pm ET every week day beginning early this spring. These additions further strengthen Power line-from political commentary and analysis programs including Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Youthful Turks with Cenk Uygur, and also the War Room with Jennifer Granholm. Ive adopted Stephanie and Bill for a long time. They offer the type of wise, informative news analysis our audiences wish to hear, said Current TV Chairman, Al Gore. Bill brings an important perspective from one's heart from the Beltway, and Stephanies fresh undertake politics and news includes a decidedly outsider flair. Were really searching toward getting their voices to the audiences. 2012 is an important year within the good reputation for our country and that we felt that morning cable tv programming was not talking with People in america with progressive viewpoints and concepts, stated David Bohrman, Leader, Current TV. This new block is going to be an alternative choice to the tired banter and lightweight news that's located on the air today. We're proud to be the sole cable news network showing independent, intelligent and interesting progressive programming for audiences every day. Every week day Current Televisions camera is going to be live inside Bill and Stephanies galleries to create audiences live coverage of two of the very progressive radio shows around the air today. Current audiences will get access to daily live interviews, political commentary, listener calls, in addition to Bill and Stephanies take in the news during the day. Adding Bill and Stephanie to the present TV news fall into line provides around the commitment of developing a round-the-clock progressive cable news network that talks truth to energy while offering a genuine option to traditional programming, Bohrman ongoing. Current has got the youthful, progressive and involved audience that I wish to achieve everyday, stated Stephanie Burns. The Present team shares our view that progressive political news and commentary is crucial to have an intelligent and informed populace and were excited to participate their growing line-from gifted news tv stations. The conservative stranglehold on morning cable news television in the usa has ended, stated Bill Press. Current TV and that i share a typical goal of cutting with the speaking points and shouting heads to provide sane, intelligent political commentary and analysis. The Balance Press Show known as Full Court Press: The Balance Press Show on Current — is really a across the country syndicated radio program featuring Press addressing, leaving comments, and examining the problems during the day. Bill Press started his career like a political insider and media commentator on KABC-TV and KCOP-TV, in La. Through the years, he's received numerous honours for his work, including four Emmys along with a Golden Mike Award. The previous co-host of MSNBCs Buchanan and Press, CNNs Crossfire and also the Spin Room, Press has generated a national status on thought-invoking and humorous experience in the left side from the political aisle. Press may be the author of six books: Spin This! (Atria, 2002), Rose bush Must Go! (Dutton Books, 2004), The Way The Republicans Stole Christmas (Doubleday, 2005), Trainwreck (Wiley, 2008), Toxic Talk (Thomas Dunne Books, 2010), and the latest, The Obama Hate Machine (Thomas Dunne Books, 2012). Press attends the daily Whitened House press briefing and creates a syndicated newspaper column, distributed weekly by Tribune Media Services. The Balance Press Show are available online at billpressshow.com or on Twitter at @BPshow. Since its September 2004 debut, The Stephanie Burns Show known to as Speaking Liberally: The Stephanie Burns Show on Current is shipped on America’s biggest radio network, Dial-Global, and heard on satellite radio via SiriusXM, and is just about the top show in Progressive Talk. Stephanie was named Talk Radios Lady of the season by Talkers Magazine and her Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour (no. 1 comedy tour in the united states) is constantly on the break box office records and stays the very first political comedy album to achieve No. 1 around the comedy charts for iTunes, Amazon . com and Billboard. The Stephanie Burns Show and Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour also boast comics Hal Sparks and John Fugelsang who make regular weekly looks on the program. Fans will find The Stephanie Burns Show online at Stephaniemiller.com or on Twitter at @SMShow and @SexyLiberal, having a combined achieve well over 70,000 fans.

Pilots Only Fools & Horses, Carrie Diaries & Zero Hour Add To Casts

Dustin Ybarra has landed the other lead opposite John Leguizamo in ABC’s multicamera comedy pilot Only Fools And Horses. Based on the British format, the multicamera comedy chronicles the misadventures of two streetwise brothers, Del (Leguizamo) and Rodney (Ybarra), and their aging grandfather as they concoct outrageous, morally questionable get-rich-quick schemes in their quest to become millionaires. Ybarra is with CAA and Andrew Tetenbaum Management. The Killing‘s Katie Findlay and Ellen Wong have joined just-cast AnnaSophia Robb in the CW pilot Carrie Diaries.The project, based on Candace Bushnells novel, chronicles Carrie Bradshaws (Robb) coming of age in the 1980s when she asks her first questions about love, sex, friendship and family while exploring the worlds of high school and Manhattan. Wong will play Jill The Mouse Thompson, Carries best friend in high school who is pragmatic, bright and super loyal. Findlay, repped byThruline and agent Russ Mortensen, will play Maggie Landers, Carries oldest friend, a townie and the daughter of the police chief who has little ambition to leave her town, mostly because she has no idea what she would be leaving for. Addison Timlin has been cast in ABCs drama pilot Zero Hour. The ABC Studios project centers on a man who, after spending 20 years as the editor of a skeptics magazine, becomes involved in one the most compelling conspiracies in human history. Timlin, repped by Gersh and Management 360, will play a member of the Modern Skeptic magazine staff.

Weinstein Co. To Take On MPAA Rating For Bully

The Weinstein Company will take on the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) once again after the organization slapped the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival documentary Bully with an R rating. Harvey Weinstein and one of the film’s featured subjects Alex Libby will personally appeal the rating to the MPAA. The R-rating was made due to “language,” restricting minors under 17 from seeing the film unless accompanied by a parent or guardian. The rating would also in effect ban the film from screening in U.S. middle and high schools. Originally titled The Bully Project, the emotional feature captures the stories of several American middle and high school students who faced relentless bullying at school. Filmed over the course of the 2009/2010 school year, Bully exposes pained and often endangered lives of bullied kids. The film’s director Lee Hirsch became a regular on shows such as CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 following the film’s premiere at Tribeca last year, which happened to coincide with a number of teen suicides allegedly as a result of school bullying. In announcing the appeal via TWC, Hirsch said he made the film for bullies and the bullied to see. “We have to change hearts and minds in order to stop this epidemic, which has scarred countless lives and driven many children to suicide,” he said. The hearing will be held at the MPAA’s Sherman Oaks screening room on February 23rd with Motion Picture Consulting LLC’s Ethan Noble assisting The Weinstein Company. Bully is slated for a March 30th release. TWC is no stranger to MPAA rating hearings. It successfully overturned an initial NC-17 rating in 2010 for Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams.

'Hugo,' 'Boardwalk' top Cinema Audio awards

"Hugo" and "Boardwalk Empire" took top honors at Saturday's 48th annual Cinema Audio Society Awards, held at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles."Hugo," Martin Scorsese's cinematic love letter to film history, was honored for outstanding achievement in sound mixing for a motion picture, while "Boardwalk Empire," which Scorsese exec produces, won sound mixing for television.But Scorsese wasn't the only marquee name the evening's two big winners shared. Re-recording mixer Tom Fleischman worked on both projects' teams, giving him the evening's only double win in film and TV. Fleischman has a previous film win for "The Aviator" and also won for "Boardwalk" last year.Fleischman shared the win with production mixer John Midgley and scoring mixer Simon Rhodes for "Hugo" and with production sound mixer Franklin D. Stettner for "Boardwalk."The miniseries "Too Big to Fail" and reality series "Deadliest Catch: New Blood" earned TV honors, as well.Penelope Cruz presented the honorary CAS Filmmaker Award to director Rob Marshall. Walter Murch and Thomas Newman gave the CAS Career Achievement Award to Scott Millan. Contact Christy Grosz at christy.grosz@variety.com

Imboden preps 'Am Hang'

Markus Imboden, director of Swiss box office hit "The Foster Boy," is prepping "Am Hang," based on Markus Werner's bestseller.Produced by Zurich-based Maximage, the drama revolves around two men who coincidentally meet in a restaurant but who have more in common than it seems.Imboden is currently enjoying huge success in his native Switzerland with "The Foster Boy." The C-Films production has so far garnered $3.6 million, making it the most successful local film in the past five years.Max Hubacher, one of European Film Promostion's Shooting Stars this year at Berlin, toplines in the 1950s-set pic, about a boy who is taken from his parents and sent to work on a farm as a "Verdingbub," or contract child. Film is based on the many true stories of this practice.Imboden is also set for "The Face," a postwar thriller penned by U.S. scribe J. Frank James and produced by Rene Asch, and "Bones of the Wise Men," also set in postwar Germany, from a script by James. Contact Ed Meza at ed.meza@mannaa.de