Hugh Jackman really wants to be Mission Impossible

Has speculation already began about who'll play Mission Impossible when Difficulties decides not revisit the tuxedo? Or perhaps is Hugh Jackman just tossing his hat in to the ring early for any shot at representing the key agent?Jackman claims he'd the opportunity to play 007 when Casino Royale was searching for its lead actor but switched the role lower."I acquired a phone call from my agent saying, 'There is a few possible curiosity about you for Bond, are you currently interested?' At that time I wasn't. I had been going to shoot X-Males 2 and Wolverine had become this factor during my existence and that i did not desire to be doing two such legendary figures at the same time,Inch he told the Press Association.Would he have a similar response if he was offered the role again?"I believe every male sooner or later considers playing Mission Impossible so it wasn't right then, however it might be right whether it returns," he added.

HBO Picks Up Steven Soderberghs Liberace Film Starring Michael Douglas & Matt Damon

UPDATED: Steven Soderbergh’s long-gestating Liberace feature is headed to HBO. HBO Films has greenlighted for production Behind The Candelabra, which will be directed by Soderbergh. It takes a behind-the-scenes look at the tempestuous relationship between legendary entertainer Liberace, played by Michel Douglas, and Scott Thorson, his younger live-in lover, played by Matt Damon. The actors had been attached to the project when it was a feature, which also had Richard LaGravenese writing and Jerry Weintraub producing. Weintraub will now executive produce, with Gregory Jacobs and Susan Ekins producing. Soderbergh will direct from a script by LaGravenese. This is a story thats going to surprise a lot of people, said HBO Films president Len Amato. Its funny, heartbreaking and always fascinating, and we are delighted that Jerry and Steven brought the film to HBO. Weintraub and Soderbergh began working on the project 3-4 years ago. They acquired Thorson’s memoir Behind The Candelabra (My Life With Liberace) and hired LaGravenese to write a script. Douglas and Damon then came on board to star but the project was dealt a setback when Douglas had to take time off for cancer treatment. Meanwhile, Weintraub spent time working with HBO on the documentary about his career His Way and got the idea of setting the film there. “It is a great place, and they could bring us the largest audience,” Weintraub said. Added Soderbergh, “From the inception of this project, weve had two priorities: getting it right creatively, and getting as many people as possible to see it. HBOs fearless approach to original programming and their unparalleled ability to pull in viewers make them the perfect fit for us. Apart from my hair growing back, I couldnt be happier. The project reunites principals who have worked together before: Weintraub produced the Ocean’s Eleven movie franchise, which was directed by Soderbergh and co-starred Damon. Damon also starred in Soderbergh’s latest feature, Contagion. Meanwhile, Douglas toplined Soderbergh’s feature Traffic, which earned the director an Oscar. Behind The Candelabra will start production in summer 2012, with locations in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Palm Springs. HBO has had success with films originally developed as features and have come to the pay cable channel with A-list talent already attached, including Grey Gardens starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange.

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Usher Experience an Usher performance by watching his London concert on Epix. In this exclusive clip from Usher: Live from London, see the singer show off his signature moves while performing - in front of fire balls! - the song "Hot Toddy." Usher: Live from London airs Sunday at 10/9c on Epix followed by the TV premiere of Justin Bieber: Never Say Never.

Fox 2000 acquires 'Mr. Ed'

Fox 2000 has acquired feature film rights to the 1960s TV series "Mr. Ed," which chronicled the adventures of a talking horse. Friendly Films principal David Friendly ("Little Miss Sunshine") and Jim Mahoney will produce the live-action family film, which will feature a real horse with a CG-animated mouth. Producers will soon begin their search for a writer. The original series aired on CBS from 1961 to 1966. Allan Lane voiced the horse, while Alan Young portrayed his owner, Wilbur Post. "It's always the perfect time for a four-quadrant family movie," Friendly told Variety. "Those are the movies that have the strongest pull. As a producer, I try to envision the poster and this one looks pretty good coming from the studio behind 'Marley & Me' and 'Alvin and the Chipmunks.'" Friendly brought the project to Fox 2000 and has experience making successful films about talking animals, having previously produced "Dr. Doolittle." He and Mahoney spent several years wrangling the "Mr. Ed" rights from two different estates. Mahoney has ties to the franchise, having exec produced the 2004 TV movie "Mr. Ed," which starred David Alan Basche as Wilbur Pope and featured the voice of Sherman Hemsley. As a passionate equestrian, Fox 2000 prexy Elizabeth Gabler was the driving force behind the project, which Fox 2000 exec Carla Hacken will oversee on behalf of the studio. Fox 2000 also produced the 2006 pic "Flicka." Fox 2000's next release will be David Frankel's birdwatching comedy "The Big Year" on Oct 14. Contact Jeff Sneider at jeff.sneider@variety.com

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Melissa Etheridge Will get Hollywood Walk Of Fame Star

FIRST Released: September 27, 2011 11:16 PM EDT La, Calif. -- Grammy- and Oscar-winning singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge, a cancer of the breast survivor, has brought a Hollywood Walk of Fame star. Tuesdays ceremony while watching Hard Rock Coffee shop Hollywood also marked the launch of Hard Rocks monthlong Pinktober campaign, a number of concerts and celebrity occasions held to boost money and cancer of the breast awareness. The 50-year-old Etheridge is better noted for the tunes Arrived at My Window and Im the only person. She received the two,450th pavement star in Hollywood. Etheridge, who had been identified with cancer of the breast in 2004, continues to be a painter ambassador for Pinktober for six years. Copyright 2011 by Connected Press. All privileges reserved.These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

'Airplane!' Star Robert Hays On the Blu-ray Release and the Lost 'Airplane' Sequel

How good is the movie 'Airplane!'? It's so good that we tried to kick off this intro with a clever reference to the best quote from the movie -- and couldn't narrow it down. The landmark parody film made by brothers David and Jerry Zucker and their pal Jim Abrahams, threw more jokes at you per minute than a Marx Brothers routine, features perhaps the greatest acting performance by an NBA star and turned liking gladiator movies into a dirty thing. On Sunday, Paramount premieres 'Airplane!' for the first time ever on Blu-ray (and only at Best Buy retail stores), and to celebrate, Moviefone spoke with star Robert Hays, a/k/a Ted Striker, the panic-stricken fighter pilot that must commandeer the troubled flight (he's the pilot on the right side of the picture). In our interview Hays recalls working with the late, great Leslie Nielen, reveals which actors got to make up their own lines and admits that there actually was going to be an 'Airplane 3.' Read on to find out what happened. The first time I saw 'Airplane!' I was probably too young for it, and half the jokes when over my head. A lot of the jokes become apparent, as you grow up. When you were reading the script for the first time, at what page did you realize that you had to do this movie? I read it when I was on a plane going to Minneapolis; ABC was sending a whole bunch of us for a station changeover, from NBC to ABC. There was something on every page that made me laugh out loud. It was insane, and I just loved it from the get-go. It got me. How difficult was it playing the movie straight, even though what you're saying is absurd? That's what the boys [Zucker and Abrams] wanted, and their sense of comedy is so incredible, it's so good. I knew that was the right thing too, we all had a sense that was the way to play it. The script is the main reason the thing is so funny; you start with the script, but then because we played it so seriously, that was the next big, important ingredient to the whole deal. The big trend now in comedies is to ad-lib, improv and do a lot takes; did the Zucker brothers ever try that approach? It wasn't like that at all. This was a low budget film; it was like three and half million bucks. And they had been rejected, they'd go back and work on it, and then they'd be rejected again, and go back and polish it and work on it. They did this, I think, over five years, and the script was so tight. The only people that really ad-libbed, were Steve Stucker, who played Johnny. He did the Kentucky Fried Theater with them, he was in their troupe. So they wrote that role for him, and they'd call him and go, "Hey! What about this? Hey! Johnny, what do you make of this?" and he'd say, "Yeah, I can make it a hat or a broche" and all that. That was him ad-libbing his goofy things. "Rapunzel! Rapunzel!" The only other ones were Al White and Norm Gibbs; they played the two guys that did the black jive. They asked if they could rewrite some of the words, and the boys said, "Please! We're just three white Jewish guys from Milwaukee. We don't know anything." Al told me he got a dictionary of black jive and they wrote up their whole routine. They did that whole thing. Don't Call Me Shirley Airplane! - MOVIECLIPS.com How was it working with Leslie Nielsen, because before this movie, he was known for serious films? I knew him as the Swamp Fox in the old Disney film when I was little, and he did the light, romantic comedies, but he had never done any insanity like this. Everyone was just wonderful, but this was the show that really turned him into an insane nutjob [Laughs]. And he then went on to be very successful doing that. What part of the film still makes you laugh just as hard? It's really difficult to just pick one. When I watched it everything would make me laugh, but when I watched myself I cringed like, "Oh god, I could've done that better. Why did I do that that way?" I'd just be very critical of myself, but enough time has gone by that now I watch it and enjoy it. Were there any moments that couldn't believe actually made the final cut? When sh-t hits the fan, wow, how did that one get in there? To me, it seemed like, "yeah, yeah get it all in there." I'm really anxious to see in the Blu-ray what deleted scenes they have. I wish they put a box set of both of them together with all the deleted scenes, because there are some very funny scenes in both films that were deleted. S**t Hits the Fan Airplane! at MOVIECLIPS.com At the end of 'Airplane 2,' there's a teaser for 'Airplane 3.' How close did that ever come to happening? It was very close. You have to understand the atmosphere, 31 years ago. Sequels were frowned upon. You were really looked down upon if you did sequels -- that was all you could do, you can't do anything else. They'd go, "Oh, Robert, 'Airplane' Hays, you ever gonna do something besides 'Airplane'?" I was doing other films, it's just that was the attitude that they took. Nowadays, sequels are called franchises. Now they look for them. That was the joke we had in 'Airplane 2,' when Sonny Bono was buying the bomb at the store -- "I'll take the magazine, the candy bar, and the third bomb on the left" -- and behind him was a big poster in the shop with a little bald guy with boxing gloves and American flag shorts and it said 'Rocky 38.' I was in London doing a film called 'Scandalous,' at the time, and they were negotiating for doing 'Airplane 3,' and it had really gotten to me. I was being ragged on by the press a lot when I'd go to events and the paparazzi's there, and they would rag on me. I said, "Nah, don't wanna do it." Of course all that did was raise the price more and more and more. When finally I said, "I'm not going to do it," that was it, they didn't do it. Of course, I wish we had done it, looking back now, but you know, that was then and this is now. 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CAA Signs Director of Toronto Hit 'Sleepless Night' (Exclusive)

Yesterday Warner Bros. closed an offer to remake in france they action thriller Sleep deprived Evening. Now, Frederic Jardin, who directed and co-authored the film that opened throughout TIFF's Night time Madness, has signed with CAA for representation. PHOTO: Toronto Film Festival: 13 Films to understand Evening was among the hits from Night time Madness, as well as in a Die Hard meets Taken tone, follows a cop who, for those intents and reasons, is held in a pulsing nightclub attempting to save his kidnapped boy and choose a missing bag full of cocaine while being went after by various drug sellers and Internal Matters detectives. But despite all of the action within the movie, Jardin focus was to create a film about fatherhood. STORY: 3 Toronto Takeaways: Academy awards, Sex and Movie Sales And after acquiring an elaborate co-production agreement, shot the film using Canon 5-D cameras (that are photo cameras, not film cameras) in France, Luxembourg and Belgium. Before the film finished screening, galleries were arranging to seize remake privileges, with Warners and producer Roy Lee winding up on the top. CAA were built with a strong showing only at that year's Night time Madness. It made the purchase for You are Next, the horror movie that offered to Lionsgate after intense interest, which week signed Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett, the film's director and author, for representation. Toronto Worldwide Film Festival CAA