Fall TV Recognition Contest: Last Chance to Election!

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Emily VanCamp Possibly you've found a well known new show this fall? Its time to reveal relating to this! Election: Which fall premieres won you over? Which flopped? In the last a few days, we now have completed numerous polls inside our Fall TV Recognition Contest. Now, you are prepared to title a champion. While not prior to deciding to election!Had you been charmed with the adorkable New Girl? Are you currently in constant demand for Revenge? Still trying to patch together the mysteries on Ringer or Person of curiosity?Although people shows are competing hard for your top place, Memorable, Terra Nova, A Gifted Guy and two Broke Women are on their heels. Exactly what are you presently waiting for? Election for that favorite show now! And make sure to see your pals on Facebook so their voices might be heard too. Polls will formally close at 7 p.m./ET on Sunday. You will want going, and make sure to evaluate back Monday to determine which show will probably be named the most used new show in the fall!

Social engineering

'Glee: The 3 dimensional Concert Movie'Justin Bieber in concertShia LaBeouf attends the NY premiere of 'Transformers: Dark In The Moon'Once a conference was considered effective if industryites switched up, networked and went home getting a present bag getting a sponsor's products. People days have left. Now occasions must have a digital and interactive element that goes viral, and site visitors are needed not just to connect with sponsors' products but additionally to obtain on the web and publish to Facebook in regards to the event.People pop-up photo working areas at parties may be amusing for site visitors, but look closer, there's another purpose. Images incorporate a sponsor's logo design design and sometimes connect with a Facebook page or website. Around the bigger scale: the June "Transformers: Dark in the Moon" premiere takeover of Occasions Square created a lot of pages of YouTube videos."Your event can forget about be localized, it must be viral on some level," states Mia Choi, founding father of Gotham's MAS Event and Design, a conference planning firm. Occasions are really about creating online content.Content can encompass immediate social internet posts via Facebook, an internet-based link-up or webcast or digital media inside the team meeting, just like a quiet auction by having an iPad application.Sponsorships will be the simplest approach to augment event budgets inside the era of austerity, however sponsors want more bang for buck. Event coordinators have found the lately simplest method to keep sponsor associations is always to integrate the sponsor into the event creatively and propel their brand online."The idea is going to be subtle but furthermore to obtain the message across," states Chad Hudson, prexy of Chad Hudson Occasions. (His firm produced the "Transformers 3" Gotham premiere and "Glee 3D's" Westwood bow.) Joining track of sponsors which will make sense for just about any film's theme -- like establishing a Godiva chocolate lounge for your "Valentine's" premiere, for instance -- may be the finest practice."What sort of brand harnesses that sponsorship is really key how effective it'll be for the brand," states Chris Ryan, V . p . of L.A.-based R3 Marketing. At occasions, brands now request "build out" -- a high quality Private room lounge inside a publish-premiere party is really a model -- together with a participate social media.Vendors also needs to give partygoers grounds to tweet. Compared to that finish, event coordinators must create immersive encounters, that could change from an image backdrop that encourages site visitors to instantly tell cell phone cameras, with a party vignette (the chocolate room) that confers an account, to creating a setup that instantly produces massive online awareness and interest (think Target's multi-media fashion spectacular and transformation in the Standard NY in August 2010).As Ryan describes it, that is new-generation sponsorship -- brands are not only seen sponsoring occasions, but reaching everyone else there and developing a significant connection. Not just logo design design plastering (though this tradition is much more healthy than in the past), "brands need to recognize, in the event you purchase a sponsorship, you need to to get money to activate it," adds Ryan.A tournament on Facebook connected having a celebration is a sure way to improve sponsorship efforts. Virgin America did just that having its "Real Steel" tie-together with DreamWorks Pictures. Not only did the airline travel plaster a "Real Steel" robot image on the flight (revealed by star Hugh Jackman) but furthermore backed an internet-based contest for fans to visit the pic's premiere."It will make our responsibility as event people on some level harder but furthermore more interesting," Choi states. "We're forget about just party coordinators, we're entrepreneurs."EVENT PLANNER'S GUIDE Social engineering Upgrades give a new luxe on existence Space craft Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

John Hawkes Doesn't Want You to Read This Interview

By his own admission, John Hawkes is a private man. The 2010 Oscar nominee doesn't want you knowing too much about him for personal and professional reasons. Unfortunately, once you obtain one of those pesky Academy Award nominations, privacy becomes a commodity -- something Hawkes learned the hard way after he was, as he puts it, "TMZ'd" at the airport. Of course, Hawkes realizes the irony of telling a reporter, during an interview, just how private he likes to remain. So, even though Hawkes did open up to Moviefone, he'd much rather you not read what he has to say. We're here to talk about Hawkes' performance in 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' a powerful look at young woman named Martha (Elizabeth Olsen), who escapes an upstate NY "community" -- or, even though Hawkes despises the word, "cult" -- led by a charming-yet-sadistic man named Patrick (Hawkes). Moviefone spoke to Hawkes about his buzzy performance in the film -- which includes a very uncomfortable rape scene with Olsen -- his private life and the time he got into an altercation on the set of the 1980s Anthony Michael Hall movie, 'Johnny Be Good'... Having lived in Southwest Missouri for three years as a child, after I watched 'Winter's Bone,' I've wanted to tell you: yeah, that's about right. Good! I lived in Springfield... I know Springfield, it was a little north of where we were. Which is slightly more normal... Sure, sure. Yeah, it's not the backwoods. I grew up in a town way smaller than Springfield, so, you know... there's a college and it's not tiny. And certainly, 'Winter's Bone' is about isolation. It was very good work. Cool... yeah, I'm glad we hit it. It was important that people back there felt well represented. And I think there are always going to be detractors, but I think, for the most part, people there felt like we had done OK. In 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' I know Patrick is a creepy guy, but there's something about him that's also charming. He plays the guitar! Very much so, for several reasons. It's always most interesting to me to -- well, you referenced 'Winter's Bone': if Teardrop is a person who doesn't molest his niece or kill her -- or get her killed, ultimately -- then why not make it seem like he will? It's most interesting for the movie to complicate her journey in that way. I think Patrick has the opposite trajectory: he is not a decent person. So why play that one level throughout? More importantly, the story wants it. I was not interested in the classic cliché cult leader approach. In fact, I refused to call it a cult for a long time: I called it a "community" just to get out of that mindset. But, for the story, if we're going to follow Martha though the story, she's a much more interesting character if she's falling for someone that we as an audience can see why she might follow him. There are a couple times I thought to myself, this guy seems nice. Yeah, and in a total Svengali way that's really obvious and she falls for him. I think, as an audience we're not as interested in her. That's something that I love -- that she does throughout the film -- is fighting being a victim. You know, she's just trying to solve her problem and is ill-equipped to do so. It's a difficult character to follow, but she made it fascinating. I know how professional a movie set it is, but, even so, that rape scene looks like a difficult thing to do. Yeah. That was in kind of a ratty -- literally -- ratty shed that we were actually kind of hoping a rat might run by the background of the scene. We could hear them in the rafters above us. But it's illustrative of how courageous and game that Lizzy is. She's interested in bringing the story to life in ways that don't always call for comfort. Certainly we would check in with each other after each take and say, "Hey, are you all right?" She'd say, "Let's keep going." Both she and Jennifer Lawrence both played the dark, troubled, characters in crises... and yet couldn't have been more healthy and more fun to be around off camera. The director calls cut and they're fine again. I pretend pretty intensely and sometimes it takes me a while -- I don't have any training at all; I'm not a method actor -- but in pretending in the scene. Certainly I don't live the character: I don't take it home; I don't take it off of the set. But they both have a real facility for being able to let go of that and enjoy lunch... or whatever's next. You're very good at comedy. After you do a role like this or 'Winter's Bone,' is that when you seek out something like 'Eastbound and Down'? I never, ever thing about that or approach it like that. It's a happy accident if it somehow feels balanced. I'm just looking for the best story being told by the best people and the best part that I can find. If those things add up, I want to be a part of it whether it's a studio film or, more likely in that instance, an independent film. Here's what's interesting about you. I look at your filmography and there's a lot of stuff that you're in that I forget that you're in, even though I'm familiar with the character. Oh, good! I always forget that you're in 'The Perfect Storm,' and I'm very familiar with your character from 'The Perfect Storm.' That's fantastic. For one thing, it affords me a slightly more normal life that I'm interested in. How so? Several reasons. Part of the way that I work is to observe. Certainly for 'Winter's Bone' I went in to places that I was advised against going into in that area. Not to try to be cool or show off, but to feel what's going on in there and what the people are really like. So that's impossible if you're a movie star. I'm also interested in privacy and being sort of a mystery to the world... as I sit here doing an interview with you. [Laughs] Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable -- on a personal level and on a professional level. I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me. Does that come from growing up in the Midwest? I think so. I think so. You don't show off in Minnesota. You mind your own business and you stay to your own kind of thing. I think that maybe the genesis of it. And it's also a so much more practical way to work and live, I think. As crazy as this business and as stroked as you can be when things are going your way, I still want to maintain a foot in the real world. And I've got great friends that help me do that. Do you get recognized? I do. I do. I've been TMZ'd at the airport... Wait, really? It's bizarre to me, too. I don't understand how or why. And I didn't mean that as a "why you?," but I don't often think of your name and TMZ. I know. And I feel like an idiot crowing about being recognized because people probably don't think I am -- but I am. I've been in NY an hour and three paparazzi dudes on bikes were following me around. Until I figured that out and told them to go away and they've been pretty good since. I mean, not in a mean way, but like, "I'm a private person." I guess it goes with the territory. But I'm old enough to where it didn't used to, in that way. The digital age is really annoying because everything has to be documented at all times and everything is out of context and everything is blown into proportions that is unrealistic. I'd rather just avoid that whole thing. What are your memories of playing the pizza guy in 'Johnny Be Good'? Oh my god. It's one of the first things I did and it's probably one of the most embarrassing things. And it's something that I try to kind of really forget and not talk about. Only because I fell the work was pretty awful on my end. I was living in Texas, it was money -- there were a lot of things about that job that were not great. I don't want to go too deeply into it. I had an issue with an older actor who has passed away who was pretty mean to me, physically, in the movie. To the point where there was intercession from other actors. Anyway, it was just not a great experience, I would say. I have no idea why I brought that up. And it was going so well! I feel I just ruined the whole thing. Not at all, man. Honestly, I would have never thought in a million years the 'Johnny Be Good' would be a controversial subject. Well, I'm just embarrassed by it. I'm also just embarrassed by the work, but, you know, that's how you learn and try to get better next time. I accept your scorn. Aw, no scorn. Now for weeks I'll be screaming in my shower, "Why did I have to bring up 'Johnny Be Good'?! Why?!" Cross it off the list. That's the problem with IMDb, too, because you hope those little tiny ones would slip away. It does stand out when you think of John Hawkes. "'Johnny Be Good'? That's weird." And Uma Thurman, come on. And Robert Downey Jr. -- these are people who have been nominated for big awards... at their worst. It's a good thing that we don't think of you when when 'Johnny Be Good' is mentioned. I like that. [Top Photo: AP] You can contact Mike Ryan directly on Twitter Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED

Name of Actress Who Sued IMBD for Age May be Revealed (Analysis)

When an anonymous actress this week sued iMDb for revealing her age, she claimed the popular Hollywood data service violated her privacy by accessing personal information she provided when signing up for the website's premium service.our editor recommendsActress Sues IMDb for $1 Million for Revealing Her AgeEnhanced IMDb.com App Offers Complete Coverage of Movies, TV ProjectsIMDb Gets Into the Game Business With Free Mobile AppHollywood Docket: Rovi Alleges Amazon.com, IMDb Violated PatentsIMDb's Top 100 Actors: 100 Million Vote Emma Stone In, Seth Rogen Out Her claims against Amazon, the site's owner, are serious. There's also another issue in this case: Will she be able to remain anonymous? The woman carefully filed her lawsuit as a "Jane Doe." But Amazon might make a motion in Washington federal court that attempts to force her to come forward publicly. Over the years, there have been many attempts by anonymous plaintiffs to keep their identities sealed, and judges often won't allow it. The Ninth Circuit, where this case was brought, has established guidelines over whether plaintiffs can remain anonymous. In a 2000 case, a panel of circuit judges had to figure out whether several foreign garment workers could remain anonymous in a lawsuit claiming unfair labor conditions. The judges had to decide whether the plaintiffs had "an objectively reasonable fear of extraordinarily severe retaliation" and described the weighing factors as such: "In this circuit, we allow parties to use pseudonyms in the "unusual case" when nondisclosure of the party's identity1068is necessary ... to protect a person from harassment, injury, ridicule or personal embarrassment.... a party may preserve his or her anonymity in judicial proceedings in special circumstances when the party's need for anonymity outweighs prejudice to the opposing party and the public's interest in knowing the party's identity." To put pressure on the actress in this case, Amazon could file a motion that argues that the woman's continued anonymity will be prejudicial. The company will want the plaintiff to prove that the publication of her age was detrimental to her career, and the only way to do that, they might argue, is by doing fact-finding about her identity and career. Attorney Eric Turkewitz, who says he has brought lawsuits on behalf of "Jane Does" in the past, believes Amazon is likely going to get what it wants. "The smart money from my corner says that, if Amazon makes the motion, the court will not allow the case to proceed in this fashion," says Turkewitz. The lawyer adds that if this happens, "She will be forced to disclose her identity or drop the matter." Will this woman, who has already incited a guessing game on Gawker, be brave enough to continue? Surely, there will be many in Hollywood rooting for her. Not many topics are more sensitive in the industry than age. Hollywood has a history of getting into trouble for age discrimination. For example, a class action brought by 165 television writers that lasted ten yearssettled for $70 million in early 2010. IMDb, in particular, has been subject to much griping over the company's decision to keep publishing ages. Despite many attempts by lawyers to get their clients' ages off of the site, the service has refused to budge. In fact, according to our sources, the company even refuses to make changes when errors are pointed out. Lots of people lie about their age, or so the company figures. Which means that the company likely will only make changes if there's pressure -- the WGA reportedly tried to spearhead an unsuccessful movement last year -- or if the company is subject to an averse court ruling. The anonymous actress will now give it a go, but she isn't the first to mount a legal challenge. Eriko Tamura, a popular actress in Japan before she came to the U.S. and starred in the NBC drama Heroes, filed her own lawsuit against iMDb four years ago. She claimed in hercomplaint that the company invaded her privacy by publishing her age and revealing her full given name. She claimed the disclosure could be used by overzealous fans to threaten her and her family, and said the fear about this caused her extreme emotional distress and made her cancel a number of public appearances. She wanted an injunction and never got it. The case privately settled and Tamura's age is still listed on her iMDb profile. Her full given name appears to have been taken down, however. The latest lawsuit raises some new legal questions, including contractual disclosures made by iMDb to customers as well as potential use of private credit card information in the publishing realm. Eric Goldman, a tech lawyer who broke news about this lawsuit on his Twitter feed, says the case could be significant, but it's too early to judge the actress' likelihood of success. "We'll have a better sense of the situation after we see IMDb's response," says Goldman. "I do think this lawsuit differs from many other privacy lawsuits because she actually alleged some financial harm from the purportedly unauthorized disclosure of her birthdate...No matter how it turns out, the case is a good reminder to Internet companies that they need to be careful about reidentifyingtheir users. Making public seemingly innocuous information, like a birthdate of a quasi-celebrity, could be a significant violation of their users' privacy expectations." E-mail: eriqgardner@yahoo.com Twitter: @eriqgardner

Obama's Teleprompter Stolen; How Does He Do Without It?

President Barack Obama Sure, the sparring between Rick Perry and Mitt Romney in the latest televised Republican debate is making headlines. But the big political news? President Barack Obama's teleprompter was stolen!Seriously. A van containing the prompter, sound equipment, podiums and presidential seals was stolen from a hotel parking lot in Virginia, NBC12 in Richmond reports.What's more concerning, though, is how Obama will survive without it. On Tuesday night's Conan, the host speculated what that scenario might be like:

An Evening With...'Martha Marcy May Marlene'

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'Strawberry Fields' is real to Soda

LONDON -- Soda Pictures has clicked up U.K. distribution privileges to micro-budget "Strawberry Fields," helmed by Frances Jum. Pic, that will world preem in the BFI London Film Festival this month, was created through Film London's low-budget Microwave Plan and it is the sixth pic to secure U.K. distribution with the plan. "Strawberry Fields," toplining Anna Madeley ("In Bruges"), Christine Bottomley ("The Arbor") and Emun Elliott ("Bet on Thrones") is really a twisted tale of brother or sister competition, sexual awakening and mind games set throughout a hot British summer time. Jum and Judith Manley pen the script while Liam Beatty and Lucie Wenigerova produce. Soda will release the pic in April included in is totally new British Cinema Quarterly platform, an initiative that supports and helps produce youthful British filmmakers. Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com