Radha Mitchell To See Charge In Melissa Rosenbergs ABC Drama Pilot Penoza

EXCLUSIVE: Radha Mitchell is positioned to see charge inside the ABC drama pilot Penoza, written and executive produced by Twilight scribe Melissa Rosenberg. Using the Nederlander format, it concentrates on Martha (Mitchell), the widow from the assassinated criminal who's expected to adopt her husbands role in the crime syndicate to have the ability to safeguard her family. Mitchell, repped by ICM and manager Ron Ax, will next be viewed in Quiet Hill: Thought 3d.

Liam Hemsworth Takes 'Die Hard 5' Near-Miss In Stride

Some things are not meant to be. For Liam Hemsworth, that list includes being Bruce Willis' son in a film, at least. The "Hunger Games" star was reportedly one of two final contenders for the role of John McClane's rebellious son in "A Good Day to Die Hard," the fifth installment in the historic action movie franchise. In the end, he lost the part to Jai Courtney, a relatively unknown name whose biggest credits include "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" and Tom Cruise's upcoming "One Shot." Hemsworth isn't sweating it, though nor should he, considering he has a surefire hit coming up with "Hunger Games," not to mention a separate appearance opposite Willis in this summer's "Expendables" sequel. "It didn't end up happening," Hemsworth shrugged it off when speaking with MTV News about the missed opportunity. "Like a lot of things in this town, sometimes you're right for things, and sometimes someone else is better for the part." Thankfully for Hemsworth and his fans, he was exactly right for the role of Gale in "Hunger Games." In fact, it's a role he might be playing for some years to come assuming this first film does well, there are at least two more movies in the "Hunger Games" franchise, potentially even three, that need Gale's services. Hemsworth isn't counting his eggs before they hatch, though. "Everyones kind of waiting to see what happens with this one," he said when asked about movement on "Catching Fire," the first "Hunger Games" sequel. "And then hopefully we can shoot the second one and the third one." What do you think of Hemsworth missing out on the "Die Hard" role? Tell us in the comments or hit us up on Twitter!

Adele tops chart for 23rd week

Adele's "21" ongoing its extended roll since the 54-week-old album held its No. 1 slot round the U.S. album chart for just about any 23rd non-consecutive week. The Columbia title -- really the only album to occupy No. 1 so far this season -- acquired sales of 247,000 models the other day (off 17%), according to Nielsen SoundScan figures for your week ended March 4. The vocalist's 2008 debut "19" hung tough at No. 7 with 37,000 offered (lower just 6%). Once the British singer's Grammy-winning "21" can maintain its position for the next week, it'll tie 24-week runs within the pinnacle occur the pre-SoundScan era by two best-selling soundtracks, Prince's "Crimson Rain" (1984-85) as well as the Bee Gees' "Saturday Evening Fever" (1977-78). However, "21" will have to prevent challenging inside a couple of days having a heavily marketed era, Bruce Springsteen's politically charged "Wrecking Ball," which showed up at stores Tuesday. In Control has carried out the spoiler before: three years ago, Springsteen's last new studio album "Concentrating On an aspirationInch became a member of at No. 1 getting a 224,000-unit bow, ending a seven-week run within the apex by Taylor Swift's best-selling "Courageous." Despite a tiny bit of 36%, Whitney Houston's "Finest Hits" (Arista/The brand new the new sony) holds at No. 2, monitoring 112,000 copies. The late singer comprises around three game game titles inside the top: her soundtrack for "The Bodyguard" increases one position to No. 5 (43,000 offered, off 9%), while her debut set "Whitney Houston" dips one rung to No. 10 (25,000, lower 15%). Houston, who died Feb. 11, comprises about nine positions among the national best gamers albums now. Only fresh title inside the top might be the self-titled release by WZRD, a rock side project by top rapper Kid Cudi. Set reaches No. 3 getting a 66,000-unit debut stanza. Cudi attracted attention the other day after he excoriated his label Universal Republic on Twitter due to its purported under-shipment in the release. Relaxation in the week's top albums are the "Now 41" compilation (No. 4, 46,000 offered, lower 15%), Tyga's "Careless World" (No. 6, 37,000, off 39%), Drake's "Be MindfulInch (No. 8, 29,000, up 13%) and Rihanna's "Talk That Talk" (No. 9, 25,000, up 9%). Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Super Tuesday: Box Office Edition

It might seem like the GOP primary season has been stretching on since the day Barack Obama entered the White House with the seemingly endless blather about socialism-inspired domestic initiatives and terrorist-sympathizing foreign policy, about how gay marriage will destroy the moral fabric of society, about how asking for heath care-provided contraceptives makes you a slut it's only just beginning. Because today is Super Tuesday the biggest, baddest day on the GOP nominating calendar. Primaries and caucuses in 10 states (Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia) will be held today. 419 GOP convention delegates are up for grabs. Mitt Romney is vying to re-solidify his front-runner status. Rick Santorum is hoping voters will coalesce around a guy with a 1950s moral compass and a 21st-century hatred of government. And Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul are still hanging around because, well, what else have they got to do? It's exhausting to try and keep track of all this stuff. It's depressing, too. Which is why on Super Tuesday, I'll be fleeing to my favorite escapist wonderland: the multiplex. In that spirit, let's take a look back at Super Tuesday as it applies to the box-office: the 10 highest-grossing Tuesdays in movie history (all figures come from Box Office Mojo). 10. "Night at the Museum": $13,506,030 (12/26/06) Days after opening with a $30.4 million weekend, Ben Stiller's fantastical romp through the American Museum of Natural History continued to dominate on its way to becoming the comedian's second highest-grossing film of his career. Stiller's number-one slot belongs to "Meet the Fockers," proving that, much like in the voting booth, there's no accounting for taste at the movie theaters. 9. "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen": $13,510,024 (6/30/09) With many kids freshly out of school for summer break, the second "Transformers" out-grossed the first-Tuesday haul of "Dark of the Moon" by just $80,000. Both films went on to trounce the total domestic gross of the original, but neither could touch the first one's super-fantastic first Tuesday, for reasons that will become clear below. 8. "National Treasure: Book of Secrets": $13,656,128 (12/25/07) Perhaps our most politically relevant film on the Super Tuesday list, insofar as its focused on the American presidential past and present and doesn't take place on Pandora, "Book of Secrets" became a surprise $200-million blockbuster in '07. Rumors abound about "National Treasure 3," but there's been no solid news about the project since early in 2011. 7. "Toy Story 3": $15,123,212 (6/22/10) The only animated movie on the list owned the competition for the final two weeks in June of '10. Even its first Thursday gross would have been high enough for Woody's third adventure to kick "Night at the Museum" off the list. 6. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2": $15,388,166 (7/19/11) What's initially surprising isn't how well the final "Potter" flick performed on its first Tuesday of release, but that other films in the franchise haven't even come close to matching that B.O. booty. "Deathly Hallows - Part 1," though, hit theaters in November (good for #25 on the list), when kids were still stuck in school, and "Half-Blood Prince" nabbed a Wednesday release in the summer of '09 (hanging on at #39), meaning fans had six days to peep the film before Tuesday rolled around. 5. "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest": $15,731,919 (7/11/06) The second film in Johnny Depp's series may have been a patience-trying mess, but by the time anyone had noticed, "Dead Man's Chest" had run off three-straight number-one weekends. The public wouldn't be suckered again: both subsequent franchise films didn't touch either the first-Tuesday bounty or the total box-office haul of "Dead Man's Chest." Fool me once 4. "Avatar": $16,086,461 (12/22/09) Both a geek and a liberal's dream movie (or, depending on your political persuasion, proof of Hollywood's hippie, pinko bleeding heart), "Avatar" pivoted from a relatively disappointing, blizzard-afflicted opening weekend and stormed into the work week impressively. A few billion dollars later, it was the highest-grossing movie of all time. 3. "Avatar": $18,290,628 (12/29/09) What's crazy about this is the second Tuesday of release did better than the first Tuesday. Shoot, the second Wednesday did better than the first Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. Positive word of mouth thrust "Avatar" to the front of the pack. If only Santorum could work such magic. 2. "The Dark Knight": $20,868,722 (7/22/08) The second installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman series ranks as the comic-book adaptation with the highest slot on the Super Tuesday list. No surprise, then, that it's also the biggest comic-book movie ever. 1. "Transformers": $27,851,016 (7/3/07) In box-office numbers, as in politics itself, not everything is fair. "Transformers" blew away the Super Tuesday competition because it was lucky enough to premiere on a Tuesday in fact, the day before July 4th. Impressive stuff, no doubt, but its record-setting Tuesday was still well behind the Wednesday debut of "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse"($68.5 million) and the Thursday premiere of "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" ($50 million). So yes, "Transformers" is the most super of Super Tuesday releases, but Romney and Santorum are going to have to metaphorically outpace that robot epic if either man wants Super Tuesday to deliver true political momentum. Tell us what you think in the comments section or on Twitter!

SAG, TV Land pact on King Street shows

In a move kept under wraps for six months, the Screen Actors Guild has signed a deal with TV Land for coverage of shows made by its King Street Prods. with potentially fewer residuals than other SAG-covered shows on basic cable. SAG confirmed the signing Sunday night after the SAG Watchdog website disclosed the deal, which was signed in August. "SAG negotiated a deal with TV Land's inhouse production company, King Street Prods., that covers all programming it makes for TV Land," a guild spokesman said. "The agreement expands SAG's coverage in television and utilizes an exhibition day formula for lower-budgeted programs." SAG refused to provide further details. The "exhibition day" formula allows reruns to be shown on 12 nonconsecutive days within one year of the first airing of the episode. Once the 12 days have been used, or the year has lapsed, a residual formula would apply. The deal does not cover TV Land shows such as "Hot in Cleveland" and "The Exes," which are already covered by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. SAG and AFTRA are seeking member approval of a merger, with ballots due March 30. The approval came from a SAG standing committee rather than the national board and was not submitted to the membership for approval. The SAG Watchdog posting by site operator Arlin Miller asserted the deal was not negotiated as part of the "basic cable negotiations" but as a separate deal, deviating from the SAG practice of negotiating national uniform contracts. "Of course, this is the way they've always done business at AFTRA and now, for first time, SAG too," Miller wrote. Leaders of the two unions battled over provisions of cable deals in 2007 over free reruns on 30 cable shows covered by AFTRA such as "Dirt," "Zooey 101," "Hannah Montana" and "The Sarah Silverman Show." SAG's Membership First faction -- which took control of the guild board in 2005 -- banded together as AFTRAartists to run for slots on the AFTRA national board, the Los Angeles board and as delegates to the national convention on the platform that AFTRA should only sign deals equivalent to SAG's. The move didn't result in a change in AFTRA policy, however. AFTRA's contention at the time was that if the shows are shot on digital, either union could go after the program since that area had never been defined and that AFTRA should make these deals with cable networks to avoid producers going non-union. SAG leaders also clashed with AFTRA that year over the latter's refusal to reduce its 50-50 participation on the negotiating committees for film-TV and on commercials -- despite accounting for far less of the overall earnings. SAG's complained that AFTRA had been offering producers cheaper contracts in basic cable, while AFTRA accused SAG leaders of being radical and inflexible, asserting that its "one size fits all" approach to contracts resulted in fewer union jobs. The Membership First faction began losing power in 2008 when the Unite for Strength faction began running on a platform that SAG and AFTRA should merge, partly to prevent such jurisdictional disputes. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

Universal dates 'Identity Theft'

Universal has set a May 10, 2013 release daet for Seth Gordon's crime comedy "Id Theft."Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy are affixed to star with Scott Stuber to create through his Stuber Pictures banner, alongside Bateman and Peter Morgan for DumbDumb. Pic involves a guy whose identity is stolen with a lady.Universal used exactly the same weekend this past year for that opening of "Bridesmaids," that McCarthy received an Oscar nom."Id Theft" will open against Warner Bros.' sci-fier "Off-shore Rim," directed by Guillermo del Toro within the tale of the alien attack threatening our planet's existence. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

Jennifer Lawrence And Josh Hutcherson Open In 'The Yes/No Show'

It's that time again, folks! We're back for the next round of After Hours' "The Yes/No Show," and this time around around it's starring the best the famous stars in the approaching film "The Hunger Games." When you fans of "The Yes/No Show" knows, host Josh Horowitz offers fans an interesting have a look at their preferred stars they may possibly not have seen otherwise. The newest sufferers site visitors are Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson, that are possibly more searching toward standing on this program than others we view. So yes, you'll be able to call Lawrence "JLau" and Hutcherson "The Hutch." No, JLau doesn't think she'll pummelled among "The Twilight Saga's" vampires of the underworld from the underworld. In addition to -- and perhaps most disturbingly -- all of "The Hunger Games" stars agreed they'd kill and eat Horowitz once they would face off against him in the future Hunger Games. Maybe he should watch his later on interviews?