'Relatively Speaking' to close

'Relatively Speaking'"Relatively Speaking," the trio of Broadway one-acts by big-name scribes Woody Allen, Ethan Coen and Elaine May, will close at the end of the month.Show becomes the second to cut bait in the wake of the holiday B.O. boom (and ahead of the early-winter chill), following the recent announcement that struggling tuner "Lysistrata Jones" will close Sunday."Relatively Speaking" initially pulled in healthy sales for a play, which don't often log the razzle-dazzle numbers of crowdpleasing tuners. Show's debut week topped $700,000, and for the next several seshes weekly tallies hovered between $650,000 and $750,000 per frame.With a cast that includes Steve Guttenberg, Julie Kavner, Mark Linn-Baker and Marlo Thomas, the show had no single toplining star, but the writers were seemingly high-profile enough to serve as a draw. Since late November, however, box office has declined.Last week, during the high-traffic frame between Christmas and New Year's, the play pulled in about $450,000. So far the production has grossed $8.7 million since it began previews Sept. 20.Julian Schlossberg and Letty Aronson produce "Relatively Speaking" with co-producers Edward Walson, Leroy Schecter, Tom Sherak, Daveed D. Frazier and Roy Furman. Show shutters Jan. 29 at the Brooks Atkinson Theater. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

ABC rules New Year's Eve rankings

Basic steps 'Dick Clarks New Years Rockin Eve With Ryan Seacrest' beat the combined shipping of NBC, CBS and Fox. 40 years on, Dick Clark and ABC continue to be packing in television audiences on New Year's Eve -- accumulating their third straight year of viewership gains. The Alphabet devoted all primetime to New Year's festivities, together with a two-hour clips show of past musical performances, which momentum only increased the net's rankings fortunes because the ball dropped in NY at night time. ABC beat the combined rankings shipping of their Large Four rivals around the evening. Based on preliminary Nielsen estimations, ABC's two-hour spec "New Year's Rockin' Eve: The 40th Anniversary Party" averaged a couple.4 rating/9 be part of grown ups 18-49 and 8.3 million audiences overall -- easily beating the combined output for repeat programming on ABC, CBS and NBC. Show constructed with each half-hour, peaking at 9:30 p.m. having a 3.3/12 within the demo and 10.5 million total audiences. And so the usual 10-11 p.m. part of ABC's 12 ,. 31 festivities, "Dick Clark's Primetime New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest," averaged a large 4.1/15 in 18-49 and 12.9 million audiences overall -Up by 46% within the demo by 3.7 million total audiences versus. this past year for that special's greatest amounts because it opened in 2000. For the reason that 10 p.m. hour, ABC came a lot more than four occasions the rating for NBC's competing 10 p.m. program, "New Year's Eve With Carson Daly" (prelim .9/3 in 18-49, 3. million). Overall, ABC loved its greatest-ranked primetime Saturday in additional than 2 yrs -- since college football's Large 12 Championship game in December 2009. From 11:30 p.m. to at least one:15 a.m., "Dick Clark's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest" averaged an enormous 7.4 rating in grown ups 18-49 22.six million audiences -- ABC's top scores for just about any entertainment telecast because the Oscars last winter. Detailed info wasn't readily available for ABC's competition, but NBC's "New Year's Eve with Carson Daly" averaged a 4.3 household rating/10 be part of the metered-market overnights from 11:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., and Fox's new entry, "American Country New Year's Eve," did a couple.Or4 from 11 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. -- both well behind ABC's special, which did a ten.7/26. Contact Ron Kissell at ron.kissell@variety.com

Jessica Biel Finds Truth About Fishes

Joining Kaya ScodelarioSwitching in the large studio projects using the more compact indie fare has always appeared to become Jessica Biel's modus operandi. Fitting then, that Biel is going to be joining Kaya Scodelario in Emanuel And The Reality Regarding Fishes, following her sci-fi ass-kicking in Len Wiseman'sTotal Recall.As reported a week ago, Scodelario changed Rooney Mara within the drama that marks Francesca Gregorini's second directorial effort (following Tanner Hall). Early reviews says it comes down to a youthful girl who's obsessive about her neighbour because she bears an uncanny resemblance to her dead mother, and concurs to babysit stated neighbour's child, which works out to become a realistic toy.We are now hearing the neighbour's title is Linda, which the toy is really a surrogate, since Linda is coping with the emotional after-results of the dying of her daughter. Therefore it is less than the crazy Lars And Also The Real Girl-alike it initially made an appearance. Since Emanuel has lost a parent and Linda has lost a daughter, we are beginning to infer the film's emotional finish-point. Beginning yet though, so there is no real telling what may be available.Linda may be the role that Biel's in line for, even though she has not formally quite signed yet, she's apparently in "final talks". The script is Gregorini's own, and shooting most probably begins sometime early the coming year.

Prometheus Pre-Trailer Teaser Online

Plus some words from Ridley ScottThe studios are thoroughly spoiling us with trailers for their 2012 big-hitters this week. Anyone would think it was Christmas! We're promised a full trailer for Prometheus on Thursday (which might mean Friday for the UK, what with the time difference) but in the meantime, here's a trailer for the trailer over at iTunes.Some quick clips of Ridley Scott bigging up the project are interspersed with tantalising glimpses of... Actually, we won't even say. Go and have a look for yourselves. It doesn't take long.To tide us over until the end of the week though, the Icelandic site Filmophilia has a new interviewwith Sir Ridders, in which he reveals he's been shooting "the beginning of time" in Iceland, and that original conceptual Alien artist HR Giger has been involved in Prometheus at some level: "I brought him in, showed him what we were doing, showed him the story and he liked it a lot. So he's doing a little bit of work for me. He's been doing some murals, big murals, which we'll see in one of the first chambers we encounter when we land where we're gonna go..."Elsewhere [stop reading here if you don't want to learn too much] Scott discusses that "Alien DNA" he's been teasing since the project began. Reiterating a previous statement, he says that, "By the end of the third act, you start to realise there's a link to the first Alien, but none of the subsequent ones."By which he appears to mean The Space Jockey: "Yeah, so there you have that. I was always amazed that nobody ever asked who the hell The Space Jockey was, and why he was there.I sat thinking about this for a while and thought, well, there's a story! And the others missed it! So, here it is. I always figured that [the ship in the first Alien] was a carrier of weapons. Therefore, who is that, inside that suit? That wasn't a skeleton, that was a suit. And if you open up the suit, what do you get inside it? And where were they going, and why were they going there?"There are definitely, categorically no xenomorphs though. "The xenomorph did very well," laughs Ridley. "He survived; he's now in Disneyland in Orlando, and no way am I going back there. How did he end up in Disneyland? I saw him in Disneyland, Jesus Christ!"There's loads more at Filmophilia, including Ridley's personal theory of evolution. Prometheus, you won't need telling at this point, stars Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and Idris Elba, and it's out in the UK next June. Check back later in the week for that full trailer...

New John Carter TV spots bring the experience

Two new TV spots marketing approaching Disney sci-fi epic John Carter have arrived online, plus they both play in the fight moments.Yahoo! Movies has condensed the 2 30-second promotions into one video, which you'll watch below.You will find still echoes of Avatar and Attack From The Clones here, however it appears like the experience has been drawn served by considerable flair.And when sci-fi movies and unusual aliens aren't your factor, there's lots of human flesh to ogle (choose from Taylor Kitsch's Carter and Lynn Collins' Martian princess Dejah Thoris).Browse the TV spots below:John Carter opens on 9 March 2012.

Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs: Who Should Win? Election!

Elizabeth Falkner, Geoffrey Zakarian It is really an Colonial-West Coast fight when Chefs Elizabeth Falkner and Geoffrey Zakarian go in person to discover who wins the fourth season in the Next Iron Chef on Sunday (9/8c, Food Network). But it is not only a completely new publish in Kitchen Stadium that's at risk. This season's competition was by mentioning Super Chefs, as well as the new Iron Chef could possibly get people boasting rights too. (Possibly a cape?) Your competitors began with 10 such culinary leaders, since it's lower for the final two, let us wait watching how they compare: See the relaxation of current day news Elizabeth Falkner - Entering your competitors, this San Francisco Bay Area chef was an underdog because of her pastry background. You ought to remember that besides being the executive pastry chef of Citizen Cake, she's the executive chef at Orson... and this lady knows her sweet and her savory. It doesn't hurt that her cake designs have nurtured her creativity. Inside the competition, she won two challenges: the Cinema Food challenge using malt balls (Ingenuity) as well as the Food Auction challenge using tuna jerky (Risk). She did falter two occasions, however, delivering her for the Secret Component Showdown, but she triumphed each time: first with bagels after which it with town house crackers and Entwine wine. Geoffrey Zakarian - This NYer understood what he was participating in getting fought against on Iron Chef: America formerly and achieving a judge regularly on Chopped. With the competition he's been almost mulishly persistent about his culinary perspective to the level of neglecting the judges' preferences and advice, but his integrity got him for the finals. He won two challenges: the heat and Meat challenge (Resourcefulness) as well as the Hamptons Beach Cookout (Passion). He's also won two Showdowns. We're unsure, but people pink Hello Cat bandages he wears permanently luck could also supply him with a benefit. Who you think should win The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs? Chef Falkner Chef Zakarian election view results

How Golden Globe, SAG Film Noms Will Impact the Oscar Race (Analysis)

NY - Howard Stern has signed an offer to become listed on NBC talent show America's Got Talent like a judge, the shock jock introduced on his Sirius XM Radio show on Thursday.our editor recommendsSimon Cowell Verifies Talks With Howard Stern for 'America's Got Talent' (Video)Howard Stern Talks 'America's Got Talent': 'I'd Be Superior Compared to Hoff' Not surprisingly, he'll replace CNN host Piers Morgan. PHOTOS: Howard Stern Over time "It's offical - Howard just signed the contract - he's the latest judge on America's Got Talent!" stated a tweet in the show's Twitter handle @sternshow. Stern stated he'll start shooting in Feb and travel the nation for that audition models, based on individuals who buzzed concerning the news online. The show's live airings will proceed to NY where Stern relies. "Howard Stern's bigger-than-existence personality brings a fantastic new dynamic to America's Got Talent beginning this summer time," stated Paul Telegdy, leader of alternative and late evening at NBC, inside a release that confirmed this news. An early on tweet from Stern's show had stated: "Yesterday, Howard met America's Got Talent champion @landaueugenejr . Howard states he's a very nice guy but he still shouldn't have won." Stern lately stated he'd be superior around the talent show than David Hasselhoff. Adding Stern caps off a large week for NBC's reality division, that has shipped much-needed great news for that network. Monday's return of Fear Factor, after its six year hiatus, introduced the unhappy network its best non-sports rankings for that 8pm hour since 2008. America's Got Talent is created by FremantleMedia The United States and Simon Cowell's SYCO Television. Email: Georg.Szalai@thr.com Twitter: @georgszalai Related Subjects Howard Stern America's Got Talent