Press agent Bill Schelble dies

Former theatrical press agent Bill Schelble, who symbolized numerous shows in NY and on the highway, died of natural causes in Milwaukee on Jan. 9. He was 81. Schelble started his showbiz career as personal assistant to author-director Burt Shevelove, employment that involved focus on TV musical productions and also on Shevelove-helmed Broadway productions including "An Interesting Factor Happened in order to the Forum." Schelble grew to become a press agent in 1970, first representing shows staged at Lincoln subsequently Center Theater including productions of "Playboy from the Civilized World," "Twelfth Evening" and "A Streetcar Named Desire." Later he repped Broadway productions including "A Chorus Line" and "Amadeus." Frequently known as "Smilin' Broadway Bill" and well-known for his encyclopedic understanding of theater history, Schelble ended his career like a Tony Award nominator. Edward William Schelble was created in Milwaukee and was initially attracted towards the theater via a childhood encounter with Katharine Hepburn. He carried out in summer time stock within the Area, experiencing Geraldine Page, who urged the budding actor analyzed for 2 years at Marquette U. and gone to live in La, where he analyzed in the Pasadena Playhouse and managed to get into "Singin' while it is rainingInch like a background dancer. Throughout the Korean War he offered within the Military Stateside. Schelble moved to NY City in 1955 in further quest for an acting career but eventually grew to become a press agent. He's made it by two siblings and diverse nephews and nieces. Donations might be designed to Broadway Cares, 165 W. 46th St., Suite 1300, NY, NY 10036 (attention: Care Cards) or online at Broadwaycares.org in order to the Alzheimer's disease Assn., 620 S. 76th St., Suite 160, Milwaukee, WI 53214. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com

Four New Dark Dark night Increases Photos Arrive

Bane and Bats square off...Entertainment Weekly have launched fresh images in the TheDark Dark night Increases, including Bane, Batman and Commissioner Gordon - nothing too revelatory, but nonetheless must-see.Within the particular problem, there is a reaffirmation that Christopher Nolan will not be altering Bane's voice for that final cut from the film, some quotes from Bale themself concerning the pressure of finishing as well as-loved saga.Mind to EW.com for bigger versions from the picsSo, there you have it. New Dark Dark night Increases stills for the delectation and appreciation. Impressed? Not impressed? Bemused? Let's read your comments within the comment box below.The Dark Dark night Increases has gone out in movie theaters on This summer 20.

Amanda Seyfried in Final Discussions for 'Les Miserables'

Amanda Seyfried is at final discussions to participate our prime-profile cast of Universal and Title's large-screen musical adaptation of "Ces Miserables."Tom Hooper ("The King's Speech") is pointing the film, whose cast includes Hugh Jackman as billed bread stealer Jean Valjean and Russell Crowe as Inspector Javert. Hathaway As Catwoman and Eddie Redmayne may also be confirmed for your roll call.Seyfried may have Cosette, who comes beneath the guardianship of Valjean.William Nicholson written the script as well as the movie uses Claude-Michel Schoenberg's score within the popular musical, which will depend on the Victor Hugo book.Seyfried last came out starred in "Over TimeInch which is presently shooting "Lovelace," through which she stars as porn icon Linda Lovelace. The Hollywood Reporter

Elton John: I Want Justin Timberlake to Play Me in Biopic

Elton John For the upcoming Elton John biopic Rocketman, the legendary singer has someone quite specific in mind to play him."No. 1 on my wish list is Justin Timberlake, because he played me before in a David LaChapelle video of 'Rocket Man' and was superb," John told the Los Angeles Times.He's a Rocketman: Elton John biopic in developmentThe 64-year-old Grammy winner and David Furnish are developing the film, and plan to make an announcement about it "very, very soon ... then it's just going to be a matter of getting the script exactly the way we want it."The film will chronicle the life and epic career of the "Candle in the Wind" singer. Lee Hall (Billy Elliot) wrote the script.

84th Annual Academy awards Poster Revealed!

Keep the hats people, this is often most likely probably the most exciting Oscar-designed story you see this week: The Academy of motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released an image from the year's official poster for your 84th Academy awards. Naturally the vibrant, shiny and exalted Oscar statuette is featured plainly, this year round the right side in the poster between eight small black and white-colored circular images that highlight moments from seven previous best picture individuals who win. There's Tom Hanks as "Forrest Gump," searching at this famous bus stop bench, Marlon Brando as "The Godfather," Julie Andrews singing for the slopes in "The Appear Of Music," Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone While Using Wind," Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman in "Driving Miss Daisy," James Dean in "Giant" (the primary one film featured that didn't win Best Picture, but was granted Best Director for George Stevens), Russell Crowe as "Gladiator," Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca." It's all regulated controlled so regal and polished. Along with the weighty tagline "Existence. Camera. Action. Celebrate the flicks in many people.Inch What can you consider the poster? A lot of or otherwise enough? Reveal inside the comments or on Twitter!

Newman: 'Help,' 'Iron Lady' exhibit contrasting styles

Composer Thomas Newman, who rarely does several or two movies annually, did four this year (along with a fifth to become launched the coming year), including a couple of the year's more spoken-about films: "The Assistance,Inch that he provided a warm and gentle score and "The Iron Lady," which known as for any bigger, the much more bold orchestral effort."The Assistance,Inch a box office hit concerning the uneasy associations between whitened and black women within the civil privileges-era South, needed especially subtle music: "I needed the background music to participate the storytelling to underline character and compel the storyline. I needed to step back from civil-privileges (issues)," he states.The locale, Mississippi within the sixties, held a unique resonance for that composer. His mother was created in Clarksdale, Miss., and that he frequently stayed there like a boy. "It had been within the Mississippi Delta, around an hour south of Memphis," he states. "Only the sense of Mississippi, the perfume from it, was something I possibly could really connect with.InchThe Ten-time Oscar nominee visited the place (Greenwood, waiting in for Jackson, Miss.) throughout shooting, "absorbing the taste, only the sense of a evening or even the humidity of the day," he states. The colours from the score -- which incorporated electric guitar, dulcimer and glass harmonica -- led towards the atmosphere from the film.Singer Mary J. Blige visited the scoring stage while Newman was recording orchestral passages she incorporated Newman's music in her own song, "The Living Proof," which runs underneath the finish game titles.While Newman is at London finishing the score for next year's "The Very Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," he got a phone call to screen the Margaret Thatcher biopic "The Iron Lady" and talk with director Phyllida Lloyd he spent the following two several weeks penning music to accompany Meryl Streep and Jim Broadbent.This score, Newman states, is "very thematic, a lot more expressionistic (than 'The Help'). There have been some moments of just about British military-band (music), some Elgarian influences, some huge orchestral and choral moments." The London ensemble incorporated 87 music artists and 28 within the choir.Newman also authored two action-movie scores for movies launched this year: "The Adjustment Bureau" and "Your Debt,Inch both hybrid electronic-plus-orchestra scores with, he states, "some pretty awesome grooves."EYE Around The Academy awards: THE MUSICLyrics bring pix to existence Stars optimize plots John goes Gaga over inanimate romanceSCORE CARDFrom rising stars to Oscar those who win, seven composers discuss the technique for their sound:Henry Jackman Alberto Iglesias Dario Marianelli Michael Giacchino Abel Korzeniowski Conrad Pope Thomas Newman Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Global Showbiz Briefs: UK, Bangladesh

Jeremy Clarkson Strikes Again, Fry’s A Gentleman The BBC has put an episode of Stephen Frys game show QI on the shelf following remarks made by Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson last week. The episode of the intellectual comedy quiz show, which Clarkson taped this past summer, was due to air tonight in the UK. But appearing on the BBCs The One Show last week, Clarkson prompted outrage when he commented on the recent public workers strike in Britain, “I would have them taken outside and executed them in front of their families.” Clarkson apologized in due course, but hes no stranger to this kind of controversy. Earlier this yearTop Gear was criticized over comments about Mexicans which were perceived as racist. The Guardian has a compilation of Clarkson’s most famous flubs titled “Jeremy Clarkson: big mouth strikes again.” Meanwhile, I checked Stephen Frys Twitter feed to see if hed made any comment about the networks decision to shelve the show, but hes been busy promoting the Sherlock Holmes sequel in which he plays Holmes brother Mycroft and which premiered last night in London. He did, however, point to a new poll in which Winston Churchill was voted the greatest British gentleman of the 20th century, followed by filmmaker Richard Attenborough and … Stephen Fry. New Appointments At Sky, National Geographic Phil Edgar Jones has been named head of entertainment for Sky. He will have oversight on the bouquet of channels that includes Sky 1, Sky Arts and Sky Living. He will also commission shows for Sky Movies and the recently launched Sky Atlantic which is airing a host of HBO shows. Edgar Jones was previously creative director of independent producer Running Bare and creative director of Remarkable Pictures where he exec produced Big Brother on Channel 4. In related news, Hamish Mykura has been named executive vice president and head of international content for National Geographic Channels International. The former head of documentaries for Channel 4 will also become the London head of global development for National Geographic Channel. Mykura will oversee editorial development and production for the company and will supervise NGCIs networks NGC, Nat Geo Wild and Nat Geo Adventure. Bangladesh Reality Show Seeks To De-Marginalize Transgender Community In an effort to break down barriers and ease taboos, Bangladesh channel ATN Bangla has opened applications for its new transgender reality show Amra Tomadery (We Are For You). Agence France Presse reports that the show will feature about 40 contestants vying for audience votes through their singing and dancing talents. The show is one of a series of recent attempts by the government and the private sector to help integrate the transgender or “hijra” community which finds itself marginalized. The show is to be recorded next month and air in February.