Oscars 2012: Favorite Speeches, Shocks And Moments

Another year, another Oscars lower. Plenty of expected benefits, yes, however, many happy surprises inside the mix too, together with a nearly-streak for Martin Scorsese's "Hugo" together with a few well-placed penis jokes within the "Bridesmaids" crew. MTV News' Eric Ditzian, Josh Wigler and Amy Wilkinson had plenty to say on what labored and what didn't as of this year's Academy awards -- have a look at their reactions inside the video below.

NBC Sets Community Return Date, Premieres for Bent, Close Buddies Forever

The Vampire Diaries' Candice Accola states that Caroline and Bonnie will probably carry on growing much closer. In last week's episode, "The Kids,Inch Caroline consoled Bonnie when her mother, Abby, was converted to a vampire. While it definitely is been Elena by Bonnie's side, Acccola states Caroline will be the one she turns to since her relationship with Elena is strained. Discover More > Other Links From TVGuide.com The Vampire DiariesCandice Accola

Netflix inks pact with Weinsteins

Netflix and The Weinstein Company Tuesday announced a new multi-year licensing agreement, their first, to make foreign language, documentary and certain other movies from TWC exclusively available for Netflix members in the U.S. to watch instantly."The Artist" will make its pay TV debut exclusively on Netflix rather than on traditional premium cable.The pic, written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius and starring Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo, has been sweeping the awards season, including the Golden Globe for Best Picture/Comedy or Musical and Best Picture Awards from the Producers Guild of America, British Academy of Film and Television, the London Critics Circle and NY Film Critics Circle.Also making its pay TV premiere on Netflix is "Undefeated," nominated for a 2012 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Pic follows players on a Memphis, Tenn. inner-city high school football team as it attempts to win its first playoff game in the school's history.A diverse slate of TWC specialty films will appear exclusively on Netflix within one year of their theatrical release, including World War II drama "Sarah's Key," "Intouchables," "W.E.," "Coriolanus" and "Bully."Terms of the deal, the first between TWC and Netflix, weren't disclosed. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Pilot Season: Mary McCormack Cast in ABC Comedy, FlashForward Vet Lands Shonda Rhimes Drama

[Warning: This story includes major spoilers from Sunday's episode in the Walking Dead. Read in the own risk. ] Lori has advanced considerably from housewife-switched-zombie apocalypse survivor. Sunday's episode in the Walking Dead shown she'd do nearly everything to keep her family intact, even if what this means is planting the seed in husband Rick's mind that his nearest friend Shane must die. TVGuide.com switched to executive producer and showrunner Glen Mazzara to get the scoop on Lori's "foolish decision." Plus: What is going to the long run hold for Shane, who's extended outlived his comic counterpart? Uncover below: Discover More > Other Links From TVGuide.com Andrew LincolnNorman ReedusScott WilsonFrank DarabontSarah Wayne CalliesJon BernthalMichael ZegenGlen MazzaraThe Walking DeadChandler RiggsMelissa Suzanne McBride

Which Pilots Will Get Series Orders?

Which Pilots Will Get Series Orders? By Pete Keeley February 17, 2012 Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images Roseanne Barr During pilot season, I like to play a game I'll call, for lack of a better title, "Which pilots will get series orders?" At this point, before the pilots have been cast and shot, there's not much to go on. You have the log line. You have the auspices. You have the stars attached, if any. But that's it.The casting directors are playing this game too. Most offices are only going to land one pilot, maybe two, and they have to choose wisely. Do they want to work on an intriguing, single-camera comedy from an up-and-coming writer who has no track record? Or do they want to staff yet another show about a cop/lawyer/doctor/single mother who "refuses to play by the rules," only it's produced by Shonda Rhimes ("Grey's Anatomy") and stars Meryl Streep?Casting a pilot that gets a series order means the office has the inside track on casting the series. If that series is a success, that casting director has job security. Job security is awesome. (Being in the publishing industry, I wouldn't know, but it sounds awesome.) So while I can't predict the future, let's give the game a new title and play "If I were a casting director, which pilot would I want to be casting?"As far as dramas go, anything that J.J. Abrams touches will probably get picked up. This year, he's attached to a few projects, one of which is NBC's "Revolution," described as "a high-octane action drama following a group of characters struggling to survivein a world where all forms of energy have mysteriously ceased to exist." All forms of energy but octane, it seems. If you remember anything from high school physics, you're saying "What about chemical potential energy?!" But Abrams just laughs in your face and smacks you with his "Lost" Emmy. April Webster is casting this one, as is the case with most Abrams projects. So she's set.Another drama that shouldnay, must!receive an order is CBS' untitled Las Vegas project. The pilot is written by Nick Pileggi, who wrote "Goodfellas," just the best movie ever. It's set in, duh, Vegas and dramatizes the life of Ralph Lamb, a cowboy who became Clark County sheriff in 1961 and spent the next 20 years battling the mob. Sheila Jaffe and Gail Goldberg are casting this one, which has to be good.As far as comedy pilots go, a casting director could do worse than landing Roseanne Barr's return to prime time. Risa Bramon Garcia will be casting NBC's "Downwardly Mobile," which stars Barr as the proprietor of a trailer park who's constantly putting out mostly figurative fires started by her eclectic tenants. But wait, it gets better. The other lead? John Goodman! I'm from a middle-class family in Chicago and grew up watching "Roseanne." You cannot convince me this is a bad idea.You can play this game too by following the pilot casting announcements posted regularly on BackStage.com. Think of the network up-fronts in May as your answer key. Which Pilots Will Get Series Orders? By Pete Keeley February 17, 2012 Roseanne Barr PHOTO CREDIT Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images During pilot season, I like to play a game I'll call, for lack of a better title, "Which pilots will get series orders?" At this point, before the pilots have been cast and shot, there's not much to go on. You have the log line. You have the auspices. You have the stars attached, if any. But that's it.The casting directors are playing this game too. Most offices are only going to land one pilot, maybe two, and they have to choose wisely. Do they want to work on an intriguing, single-camera comedy from an up-and-coming writer who has no track record? Or do they want to staff yet another show about a cop/lawyer/doctor/single mother who "refuses to play by the rules," only it's produced by Shonda Rhimes ("Grey's Anatomy") and stars Meryl Streep?Casting a pilot that gets a series order means the office has the inside track on casting the series. If that series is a success, that casting director has job security. Job security is awesome. (Being in the publishing industry, I wouldn't know, but it sounds awesome.) So while I can't predict the future, let's give the game a new title and play "If I were a casting director, which pilot would I want to be casting?"As far as dramas go, anything that J.J. Abrams touches will probably get picked up. This year, he's attached to a few projects, one of which is NBC's "Revolution," described as "a high-octane action drama following a group of characters struggling to survivein a world where all forms of energy have mysteriously ceased to exist." All forms of energy but octane, it seems. If you remember anything from high school physics, you're saying "What about chemical potential energy?!" But Abrams just laughs in your face and smacks you with his "Lost" Emmy. April Webster is casting this one, as is the case with most Abrams projects. So she's set.Another drama that shouldnay, must!receive an order is CBS' untitled Las Vegas project. The pilot is written by Nick Pileggi, who wrote "Goodfellas," just the best movie ever. It's set in, duh, Vegas and dramatizes the life of Ralph Lamb, a cowboy who became Clark County sheriff in 1961 and spent the next 20 years battling the mob. Sheila Jaffe and Gail Goldberg are casting this one, which has to be good.As far as comedy pilots go, a casting director could do worse than landing Roseanne Barr's return to prime time. Risa Bramon Garcia will be casting NBC's "Downwardly Mobile," which stars Barr as the proprietor of a trailer park who's constantly putting out mostly figurative fires started by her eclectic tenants. But wait, it gets better. The other lead? John Goodman! I'm from a middle-class family in Chicago and grew up watching "Roseanne." You cannot convince me this is a bad idea.You can play this game too by following the pilot casting announcements posted regularly on BackStage.com. Think of the network up-fronts in May as your answer key.

Marvel reveals The Avengers LEGO toys

If you thought LEGO Lord Of The Rings was cute, just wait until you've seen The Avengers' LEGO counterparts.Unveiled by Marvel, these additions to the Danish block-building world are looking like the summer's must have toy for film geeks everywhere. Actual children may also enjoy them.Unsurprisingly, vehicles form the crux of some of the sets, including buildable versions of Captain America's motorbike and the Quinjet.But it's the cute figures that are the essential element for us. Check out the images below:The Avengers opens on 27 April 2012.[brightcove]1213024251001[/brightcove]

National football league in rankings league of their own

Super Bowl XLVI was probably the most-viewed telecast in U.S history. Because of a 300-plus funnel world, the web, Dvd disks along with other more recent media forms, the eyeballs of America are splintered more than ever before nowadays. There is however one factor which brings us altogether: the National football league. The February. 5 Super Bowl between your NY Titans and Gambling on NBC came the biggest average aud on record for any U.S. program -- 111.3 million -- marking the seventh straight year of gains for professional football's championship game. Once the same teams met 4 years previously Fox, a likewise competitive contest came 97.4 million. How large may be the National football league nowadays? Take into account that the 111.3 million who viewed the Super Bowl is much more compared to combined audiences which are more recent determining games of baseball's World Series (25.4 million), college football's BCS title game (24.two million), basketball's National basketball association Finals (23.9 million), college basketball's NCAA men's championship (20.a million) and hockey's Stanley Cup Finals (8.5 million). This came around the heels from the conference championship games that determined the Super Bowl teams calculating an astonishing 53.7 million -- probably the most for that penultimate round in 3 decades. Obviously, it will help the sport hasn't been more competitive, including some nail-biter Super Bowl finishes (unlike a stretch an era ago when the overall game generally would be a blowout). However the league has been doing its part to make certain more audiences see significant games season-lengthy, with a few key changes to the television packages recently. For instance: The Saturday playoff games typically skedded for 1 p.m. ET kickoff decades ago were gone to live in primetime, and among the conference titles has become also performed in primetime there's flexible arranging on Sunday, which changes games either to some:15 p.m. or 8:30 p.m. ET timeslot when the one initially scheduled is really a dud and top-tier teams can be displayed in primetime as much as six occasions, up from five about ten years ago. Because a roll because the National football league is on, you will find already some questioning the league's recent decision to include early-season Thursday evening games to the television slate. The matchups during these games don't figure to become as attractive because the primetime package on either NBC or ESPN -- and definitely will not draw too, since they'll air around the lesser-available National football league Network -- but could it be an excessive amount of a positive thing? Contact Ron Kissell at ron.kissell@variety.com

Exclusive video interview with Daniel Radcliffe

[brightcove]1442101405001[/brightcove]You can watch an exclusive video interview with Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe above.In the video, he discusses his transition to an altogether more 'adult' role in The Woman In Black, explaining that his character, lawyer Arthur, is drifting through life "like a ghost."Speaking of the crossover, Radcliffe says, "It was great to step onto a new set, and to be able to lead a new set was very exciting to me."He also talks about his own fears (and those of Potter co-star Rupert Grint), so get watching now.And while you're in a video-watching mood, why not check out these two clips from the film?[brightcove]1442200718001[/brightcove][brightcove]1442186164001[/brightcove]The Woman In Black opens on 10 February 2012.Read Total Film's The Woman In Black review.