South america Identity Crook Arrested Using Fake ID With Photo of Jack Nicholson

File under bonehead move during the day: A 41-year-old guy in Recife, South america was arrested and billed with using false documents and falsification of public document as he attempted to spread out a banking account with numerous fake IDs in the possession, including one having a photograph of Jack Nicholson. Based on Globo.com (through the Daily What), the accused was trying to spread out a free account within the title of 1 John Pedro dos Santos when government bodies caught on. "There's no resemblance between your suspect and actor," notes the first report. Closer inspection pegs the photo as Nicholson's 2003 portrait by acclaimed digital photographer Martin Schoeller, released within the pages of EW years back... so a minimum of the man's got good taste? [Globo through the Daily What]

Charlotte now Chapel forms phone-hacking suit

LONDON -- Charlotte now Chapel, who told a U.K. media inquiry to be hounded by Rupert Murdoch's journalists when she would be a teen singing sensation, received 600,000 pounds ($951,000) Monday inside a settlement from News Worldwide and stated she'd been sickened in what she discovered invasion into her private existence. Chapel was present at London's High Court for that reading through of the statement solving her declare that 33 articles within the now defunct News around the globe tabloid were the merchandise of journalists unlawfully hacking into her family's voice mails. Outdoors court, Chapel stated: "What I have found because the lawsuit went on has sickened and disgusted me. Nothing was considered not allowed by individuals who went after me and my loved ones, just to earn money for any multinational news corporation." The settlement to Chapel includes 300,000 pounds ($476,000) in legal costs along with a public apology but Chapel stated she didn't believe News International's apology was sincere. "I've also learned that regardless of the apology that the newspaper just succumbed court, these folks were prepared to visit any measures to avoid me subjecting their behavior," she stated. She added: "They aren't truly sorry. They're just sorry they were given caught." Lawyers for Chapel, 26, and her parents, James and Maria, confirmed that terms have been agreed with News around the globe writer News Group Newspapers. News Worldwide, a division of Murdoch's News Corp., has attempted difficult to keep phone hacking cases from likely to trial. It's released its very own compensation program, overseen with a respected former judge, and it has compensated out millions in out-of-court pay outs for around 60 cases including one introduced by actor Jude Law, comedian Steve Coogan, former soccer star Paul Gascoigne and actress Sienna Burns. Judge Geoffrey Vos has stated News Worldwide had made "superhuman efforts to stay every situation." The legal cases stem from facts of phone-hacking along with other illegal tactics in the News around the globe, where journalists routinely intercepted voice mails of individuals making the news inside a relentless look for scoops. Murdoch closed the 168-year-old tabloid in This summer among a wave of public revulsion over its 2002 interception of voice mails owned by military services weapons 13-year-old girl, Milly Dowler, who had been later found killed. Murdoch and the company compensated millions towards the Dowler family. The scandal has created three parallel police research along with a U.K. judge-brought inquiry into media ethics, where Chapel spoke from the intense, frequently overwhelming, media invasion into her family's private existence. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

J.J. Abrams And Paramount Extend First-Look Deal Through End Of 2015

EXCLUSIVE: I’ve just learned that JJ Abrams and his Bad Robot production banner partnered with EVP Bryan Burk are one of, and perhaps the, most important relationships at Paramount. So this is no surprise. But betcha the terms were rich indeedto extend their first-look deal through the end of 2015. The deal dates back to 2006. Grosses on Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol are now $670M globally while those for the Star Trek reboot hit $385M worldwide. Abrams is right now shooting the Star Trek sequel which he’s producing and directing. Under the Paramount deal, Abrams also has made Cloverfield (producing) and Super 8 (producing and directing), both of which did well at the global box office.

'Safe House' tops holiday B.O.

'Safe House'Despite three new entries, holdovers dominated the President's Day weekend box office.Altered just slightly from Sunday's estimates, Universal's No. 1-ranking "Safe House" tallied a projected $28.4 million over the long President's Day weekend vs. an earlier estimated $28.5 million four-day take."Safe House," which fell only 41% using a three-day comparison in its second frame, swapped places with last weekend's domestic B.O. champ, Sony's "The Vow." That pic, from Screen Gems and Spyglass Entertainment, tallied a revised estimated $26.6 million through Monday, down a tick from the studio's $27.4 million four-day estimate released on Sunday."The Vow" still is ahead cumulatively, with $88.5 million domestically; "Safe House" has tallied so far $82.6 million.In third place, Warner Bros.-New Line's solid family pic "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island" grossed an estimated $26.4 million through Monday. Pic's three-day take, at $19.9 million, repped a drop of just 27% compared to the pic's debut tally last weekend. "Journey 2" has cumed $59.5 million domestically.Among the weekend's newcomers, Sony's "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance" fared best. The film grossed in four days a slightly higher estimate of $25.7 million vs. $25.5 million. "Ghost Rider," co-financed by Hyde Park for a reported $57 million, debuted at 3,174 Stateside locations, of which 2,352 (or 74%) were in 3D. The format contributed 65% of the weekend gross.Fox's action comedy "This Means War" bowed this weekend, performing in line with (if not a tad above) most industry expectations with $20.4 million over the long holiday.Meanwhile, Disney's Studio Ghibli toon "The Secret World of Arrietty," based on kids classic "The Borrowers," grossed a projected $8.1 million -- a softer four-day take than some expectations. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com

Shawn Levy Talks New Frankenstein

Monster(s) will be mo-capVarious Frankenstein projects have been coming together on the operating table in recent years; two have had the necessary surge of studio power to help them rise up; and Real Steel director Shawn Levy has just been talking to Collider about the one that belongs to him.Broad details about Max Landis' screenplay have already emerged, not least from Landis himself. The Chronicle writer explained in a great interview with Shock last year that he's attempted to coherently combine elements from Mary Shelley's original novel, and from the unwieldy subsequent Frankenstein mythologies that have built up over the years. His story is from the point-of-view of Igor, who 'everyone knows' is Frankenstein's hunchback lab assistant... except that he isn't, and kind of never was. Check out Shock's interview for the full history...So the big reveal from Levy is not the story but the approach: his monster will be achieved with the same technology that brought the Real Steel robots to life."My whole approach with Frankenstein is based on a mo-cap SimulCam playback," Levy explains (if "explains" is quite the word). "I'll go to Europe, shoot the movie, do scenes with the real actors and I'll be able to see the motion-captured monster in real time due to SimulCam.It's not a dude with scars on his face. It's not just kind of latex and a costume; it will be a motion-capture performance of the monster, and I can give away maybe not too much by saying there's more than one monster in our version."Levy says that, rather than causing a potential problem per se, Stuart Beattie's I, Frankenstein, adapted from Kevin Grevoux's comics and starring Aaron Eckhart, has made Fox raise their game."I, Frankenstein is a wildy different movie to ours," says Levy (it's a modern-day story that casts the monster as a hero in a war between clans of immortals), "but in the culture it's another Frankenstein movie, and it's gonna come out next year. So if anything, that movie has kind of raised the bar for the studio and I to cast the living hell out of our Frankenstein. Everyone now knows, because people have seen Chronicle,that Max Landisis a hell of a goddamn writer and his script for Frankensteinis awesome.We've gotta make sure we cast it really, really right, and so that's the moment we're in right now."There's no start date yet, but while you're waiting, make sure you catch Chronicle while it's still in cinemas.

A helicopter ride home

Matthew Libatique and Harrison Ford After enduring some of the more long-winded awards speeches in recent memory -- even by ASC standards -- the characteristically shy Harrison Ford, who was given the Board of Governors laurel, kept his remarks mercifully short, as did those who won competitive prizes at the d.p. kudofest Sunday at Hollywood and Highland's Grand Ballroom. Ford, whose reel included d.p. touchstones "Apocalypse Now" and "Bladerunner," gave a shoutout to dolly grips, who made it easy for lensers like presenter Matthew Libatique, to mimimize Ford's time on set. The prize? A ride home on Ford's helicopter.

Ratings: American Idol Holds Steady in Demo

Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez and Randy Jackson Those writing about the inexorably declining ratings of American Idol will have to stand down for at least a day as the amateur talent competition stayed even with last week in the industry-prized 18-to-49 demographic, according to preliminary Nielsen figures. Now, we'll have to see if the cliff-hanger involving the hopeful who fainted and fell off the stage gooses the ratings for Fox. (By comparison, fair or not, NBC's The Voice grabbed 17.69 million viewers with a 6.6 demo rating Monday night on its first regularly scheduled airing.) Read our American Idol recap Meantime, the premiere of CBS' Person to Person reboot, featuring George Clooney, Jon Bon Jovi and Warren Buffett, got weak numbers, and ABC's comedy block solidly stayed steady or inched up from a week ago In its new time slot, Rock Center with Brian Williams, spotlighting Meredith Vieira's interview with the White House intern who's flogging her book about her affair with President Kennedy, wound up a distant fourth. Both newsmagazines posted a 1.1 demo rating. In prime-time last hour, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation dropped some 20 percent from its last original episode a fortnight ago, when Marg Helgenberger's swan song was the attraction. Check out the rest of the day's news on TVGuide.com 8 p.m.CBS: Person to Person 6.02 million viewers (1.1 demo rating)ABC: The Middle 8.48 million (2.6); Suburgatory 7.27 million (2.5)Fox: American Idol 18.94 million (6.0) NBC: Whitney 4.07 million (1.5); Are You There, Chelsea? 3.68 million (1.4)CW: One Tree Hill 1.29 million (0.7) 9 p.m.CBS: Criminal Minds 13.61 million viewers (3.4 demo rating)ABC: Modern Family 12.85 million (5.5); Happy Endings 6.90 million (3.0)Fox: Mobbed 8.77 million (3.0)NBC: Rock Center with Brian Williams 5.28 million (1.1)CW: Remodeled 713,000 (0.4) 10 p.m.CBS: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 11.44 million viewers (2.7 demo rating)ABC: Revenge 7.58 million (2.5)NBC: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 6.74 million (2.2)

Ridley Scott rejects Harrison Ford whispers

This Year's week we introduced this news that Andrew Kosove, producer round the approaching Edge Runner follow-up, had declined whispers that Harrison Ford reaches predicts join the cast. Now we could go one better, with Ridley Scott breaking cover to blow people whispers in the water. Kind of...InchNo," mentioned Scott, when asked for if he'd spoken with Ford, before stopping missing ruling returning out completely. "Certainly not,Inch he ongoing, "I'm unsure that that'll be considered a tale point, so I am unsure. However when it were, nothing would please me more."Hope that's nice apparent then. Scott did be capable of clarify the movie's status a little more , explaining that as of this early on there's not really a script doing the models."We're still in discussions about whether it must be a prequel or follow-up," he describes. "It is really an interesting conversation. I'm winding up in authors and that i also have attended [original Edge Runner film author] Hampton Fancher which he still talks the speak. He's immediately. I spoken with him now. But we don't really possess a script yet."Possibly more exciting might be the nugget he ongoing to exhibit about Prometheus, mentioning the potential for a follow-up to his space-set journey."I merely thought Prometheus am enjoyable - returning to sci-fi am fun - that we preferred to [go back to Edge Runner, too]. I'm also thinking about what is I'd do for just about any Prometheus 2."That's it folks, that's your brand-new Ridley rumour for today! Prometheus opens inside the Uk on 1 June 2012.

Suburgatory's Jeremy Sisto on George's XXL Discovery: "It's His Achilles Heel"

Jeremy Sisto The ultimate time George Altman found condoms within the daughter's mattress room on Suburgatory, he switched all their existence upside lower and moved them from Manhattan to suburbia. Since he's found them again, expect George to behave in the similarly crazy well as over-the-top fashion. "It's his Achilles heel," Jeremy Sisto notifies TVGuide.com. "He is not ready to handle his child maturing.Inch Not aware reunion! Alicia Silverstone moving (while using homies) to Suburgatory In Wednesday's episode (8:30/7:30c, ABC) George switches into stress mode and tries planning a game title title evening while using women to keep Tessa (Jane Levy) in your house - and from her older boyfriend. "He thinks that Jenga will most likely be considered a lot cooler in Tessa's eyes that she's in some manner likely to postpone having sex for the next 10 years or something like that like this,Inch Sisto states. However, due to the fact George desires to keep Tessa guaranteed in the tower does not necessarily mean George won't be obtaining a chuckle that belongs to them. "He's doing have a very fling with someone he wasn't expecting to experience a fling with to in some manner prove he is not a prude," Sisto states. "He encounters a whole whirlwind of feelings and processes just a little as being a child." Suburgatory boss on George and Dallas: Would they or won't they? Whether it's a huge dental bill or else getting backed for just about any country club membership, Sisto states George's inclination to blow things from proportion is among his favorite qualities in the character. "George's overreaction to things and also the impulsiveness is a factor the premise in the show is founded on,In . according to him. "It's so fun to be capable of be crazy after a period of dramatic things." However, this sudden warmth in George's, additionally to Tessa's, sex existence brings a significantly much deeper problem for the surface for your close-knit father and daughter. "George has always kind of hidden his romantic existence from Tessa so she's not prepared to handle it herself even though she's more willing to handle it than her father," Sisto states. "Are both stuck within this type of relationship they have experienced for this kind of very very long time. Any change will most likely be very difficult to date because the inclusion of others.Inch Tessa and George's desire to not welcome anybody to the Altman household is a larger dilemma later this season when George moves "very fastInch having a completely new love interest carried out by Alicia Silverstone. And there's still the issue of George's Christmas hug with Dallas (Cheryl Hines). "They're really, for reasons uknown, in denial from the feelings for each other then Alicia Silverstone's character helps make the problem,Inch Sisto states. "It's positioned on the trunk writers, but it's ever present - in every single episode there's a part of that. It's heartbreaking to check out because you just need those to get together.Inch

The Avengers Superbowl spot arrives online

For those of you with little to no interest in pigskin-chucking, Marvel have helpfully released their Superbowl advert for The Avengers online. And brief as it is, there's still some new stuff in there to keep the fans excited.The new trailer is completely dialogue-free, but does show a few new snippets of action, including Thor standing atop the Chrysler Building and Black Widow looking slinky.Check out the new teaser, below... Meanwhile, Joss Whedon was recently part of an Avengers Twitter chat, and took the opportunity to put those Spider-Man rumours to bed once and for all. "There is no Spider-Man cameo," said Whedon. "But the Avengers do turn off the dark." Intriguing...Tom Hiddleston was also present, and he had a few words to say about how Loki has changed for The Avengers. "More mischievous. More evil. More hubristic. More delusional. More damaged. More badass," he explains. That's that cleared up then.The Avengers opens in the UK on 27 April 2012.