Moth Diaries Trailer Flies In

Lily Cole vamps it upYou might expect a moth's journal to contain entries like "11pm: Flew into lightbulb," but you'll find no such nonsense in Mary Harron's psychological horror The Moth Diaries, the trailer for which has just arrived online. This is the tale of Rebecca (Sarah Bolger), sent to boarding school ("My father had just died; my mother was a wreck") and having her world rocked by the darkly mysterious and obsessive Ernessa (Lily Cole). "Cooped up here, you girls all get so close, and all that emotion can turn toxic," says English teacher Scott Speedman.Think that sounds like 19th century Gothic novella Carmilla? Well done, take a house mark. That's exactly what's going on here. The girls are studying Sheridan LeFanu's spooky classic in their English class, so the parallels are entirely deliberate, although whether The Moth Diaries is actually a vampire story remains ambiguous.This might all sound like LeFanu for the Twilight tweens, but, at least from the look of the trailer, the emphasis seems to be on proper psychological tension and chills, and the clip makes sure we know that Mary Harron was the writer and director of American Psycho. We're promised sex and blood, withCole explaining that, "Some people find great joy in the prospect of death"."My mother she butchered me, my father he ate me," Cole sings. We don't get to hear what her sister did. US audiences will possibly get to find out on April 20. We're still awaiting a date in the UK.If you fancy reading Carmilla, it's in LeFanu's In A Glass Darkly. Or it's online at Project Gutenberg.

Nicolas Cage keen on making Ghost Rider 3

Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance smashes into UK cinemas this Friday, and its star Nicolas Cage is apparently already looking to get back in action for a third round as the flame-skulled anti-hero."I know Nic wants to do it, he's very pumped about it," says co-director Mark Neveldine. "We'll just wait to see how well [this] does."Cage was famously keen to get the Ghost Rider series back on the track after the disappointing original, and he seems to have found the ideal duo for the franchise in Crank helmers Neveldine and Bryan Taylor.The love appears to be mutual. "He's such an incredible force," says Taylor. "When you've got a weapon like that, you don't want to leave anything on the table."From what we've seen so far of Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance, it wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing for these three to get together again for a third round of comic book action. Watch this space.Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance opens 17 February 2012.

Edinburgh Film Fest returns honours

The Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival has reinstated several major honours, including best worldwide feature film by a growing director, best performance inside a British feature film and also the Michael Powell Award for the best British feature. In the past years in the fest, the Michael Powell Award honored the very best British feature film selected in the British Gala section inside a significant switch to the 2012 edition, documentaries may also be qualified. The performance award will be provided for an individual for exceptional operate in a U.K. feature-length production. The worldwide feature film to have an emerging director kudo may also be available to paperwork. Both British and worldwide competition sections is going to be judged by worldwide juries. Qualifications for that honours is going to be in the artistic director's discretion it will likewise be feasible for worldwide and British features to screen included in the program but from competition. Fest artistic director Chris Fujiwara stated inside a statement, "I'm delighted to re-introduce these honours for that Festival this season and am very happy to give both documentary and fiction films the chance to win the honours. Personally i think very strongly that getting significant honours is essential to have an worldwide film festival. Honours can stimulate creative dialogue and most importantly help shine the spotlight on emerging talent, that is area of the mission of EIFF." Contact Carole Horst at carole.horst@variety.com

Strong winter for Broadway

The Phantom from the Opera hit 10,000 performances on February. 11. Chandra Lee Schwartz and Jackie Burns in Wicked in the Gershwin.Winter, surprisingly, continues to be kind to Broadway this season. Sure, last week's box office amounts might not have given legiters much to obtain looking forward to, however for a mid-Feb frame, it had not been so bad. And calculating from the beginning from the twelve months, the present annum is well in front of 2011 both when it comes to sales and attendance. Based on amounts come up with through the Broadway League, the 2011 B.O. cume hit $112.3 million versus. the $87.six million drenched for the similar days this year. Attendance arrived at 1.3 million, in comparison towards the a million theatergoers who switched out throughout exactly the same window this past year. Numerous factors lead towards the uptick, most famously of the greater quantity of productions running this season than within the same six days this year. You will find also Street-wide marketing deals, underneath the ad banners Broadway Week (which ended February. 4) and Kids' Evening on Broadway (February. 5-9), assisting to warm up winter biz, and in addition, the unseasonably warm winter has not produced just one blizzard to discourage auds. Per week when some shows were up yet others were lower -- and no fluctuations were attention-getting -- the greatest news from the frame was probably the 10,000th performance of "The Phantom of Opera" ($604,378) on February. 11. The week's tally was lower a little in the prior sesh simply because half the inventory at this landmark perf on Saturday was contributed for an Stars Fund charitable organisation event. Also lower was "Porgy and Bess" ($818,346), inside a dip possibly due to the 4-show lack of above-the-title thesp Norm Lewis. An even more worrying decline was published at "Sister Act" ($426,152), which saw attendance slide below 48%, in addition to at soon-to-close play "Stick Fly" ($196,337), another reveal that performed to under 1 / 2 of capacity. Among individuals confirming gains within the prior week was "Wicked" ($1,508,501), which reclaimed the very best just right the charts in front of last week's leader, "It of Mormon." The second, however, still did all right, breaking another house record in the O'Neill Theater having a weekly tally of $1,485,740. "Spider-Guy: Turn from the Dark:" ($1,378,970) and "The Lion King" ($1,349,837) rounded the frame's millionaires' club. One of the other productions to determine a sales bump were those probably to possess become a lift in the Kids' Evening campaign, including kid-friendly "Mary Poppins" ($667,272) and "How to achieve Business Without Really Trying" ($656,165), whose star, Nick Jonas, was marketed because the Kids' Evening ambassador. Overall sales rose about $600,000 to $15.six million. That's greater compared to $15.a million published throughout exactly the same frame this past year, but last week's attendance of 177,602 was a little beneath the 179,000 from 2011. Joining the fray a week ago was the commercial change in last fall's nonprofit staging of "Venus in Fur" ($346,117), confirming solid amounts for any play that's technically still in previews in front of a February. 29 re-opening. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

Pilot Season: Melrose Place's Jessica Lucas to Star in CW's Cult

Jessica Lucas Jessica Lucas is returning for the CW. The prior Melrose Place reboot star has showed up charge role inside the new drama pilot Cult, TVGuide.com has confirmed. Deadline first reported what is the news. Pilot Season: Have the scoop! The project concentrates on Skye (Lucas), an inquisitive, youthful female production assistant around the very popular tv series referred to as Cult. Carrying out a rash of disappearances together with a likely murder, Skye joins a journalist blogger in considering the rabid fans in the series who might be re-creating crimes seen round the type in real existence. Rockne O'Bannon will write and executive-produce alongside Gossip Girl duo Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage and Len Goldstein. Lucas' credits have J.J. Abrams' Cloverfield, 90210 and NBC's short-were living Pals With Benefits.

The Voice Rules! (But Listed Below Are 6 Items That Will Make It Better Yet)

The Voice This past year, nobody, not necessarily the forces that attend NBC, expected The Voice to pose an authentic threat towards the The American Idol Show Show. Simon Cowell had taken his talents for the X Factor and involving the two shows, Fox would out-yell and outspend almost every other music competitions. Nevertheless The Voice which is large red-colored-colored swivel chairs which is panel of feisty, funny idol idol judges surprised everyone. Rather than repurposing the Idol formula, The Voice gave America a considerably-needed break from painful auditions, "dawgs," "tunes that inspire" week, and idol idol judges critiques that ranged from "you really handled to obtain your personalInch to "that was beautiful, perfect." The show also beat X Key to the punch to get idol idol judges work as mentors for the participants, too as with organizing several participants of all ages and races and - most considerably - singing styles. The Voice Season 2 scoop: More blind audition models, bigger teams, savvier participants And therefore, The Voice not only increased being NBC's 2011 sleeper hit, furthermore, it reinvigorated a format that Idol in 10 seasons had made tired. Just what now? Executive producer Mark Burnett features slight tweaks for Season 2: each coach could have a team of 12 (up from last year's 8), and both initial blind audition models as well as the mind-to-mind fight models will probably be extended. The show has furthermore hired new social media correspondent Christina Milian, who replaces Alison Haislip. Auditions were shot last summer season, as well as the fight models are actually recorded, but that doesn't mean there's not time to consider some constructive feedback! Our hopes and desires for Season 2: We view the ballroom ballroom dancers - which we do not require them. At first, they were shiny and new. Now, after also watching lots of these stomp around participants around the Voice as well as the X Factor, they're just annoying and help help remind us a lot of a Vegas evening club (not just a compliment). Besides, nobody sounds good trying to sing and booty shake concurrently. The Voice: Ignore nice idol idol judges and particulars round the new experts Really? Greater than four times of fight models? Love the neon boxing ring. Love the duets. The problem while using fight models is the participants who appear because first week go MIA for an additional a few days - and is nice luck to audiences who is able to remember them ultimately that time. We are, ultimately, talking about starting with 48 functions this season. Footage remains shot, but maybe all of us perform a much more than four battles hourly-extended episode? Will we hear less in regards to the tweeting? Quit removing valuable minutes from showing us how a coaches mold their entertainers only to prove the show is interactive. What show isn't nowadays? Because the X Factor allowed people to tweet their votes, Twitter-capable shows are a smaller amount impressive now. Do audiences worry that @SheltonFan98 thinks among his participants did a rockin' job? If you'll probably keep the social media lounge around, which we assume you'll, transform it into a real part of the show. Maybe let audiences election on song choice, or pick better fan questions for your participants and coaches to resolve? Adam and Carson should forget about share a wardrobe. Or, at least, they can't share the identical stylist. Our suggestion? Carson, proceed and doing the T-shirt-black leather jacket combo you would like perfectly. Adam, it's not necessary to placed on a jacket ever. The Voice names Christina Milian as new social media correspondent Ignore second chances. Last season, producers were expected to let several rejected hopefuls sing again when the show went from potential participants through the blind auditions. This strikes us as unfair. In case your singer can't push the coaches' buttons the first time - see that which you did there? - then would they have a very shot at winning? Adam should have taken Casey her first-time. We comprehend the blind auditions are actually shot, but we're positive the show's recognition last season made a decision to get this to a non-problem next time around. Awesome it while using come-ons, Christina. Unlike people other excessively encouraging female idol idol judges, Christina has not been afraid to speak her mind, even if what this means is reducing another coaches. Which is really a-Confident with us, but sometimes you please quit to obtain every youthful factor which hits happens? X-Tina, everyone knows you want to flaunt that which you have, but let's let grand dad Steven at Idol enjoy the title of TV's sleaziest singing judge. Exactly what are your hopes and dreams for your year in the Voice? Reveal inside the comments below and search for a preview within the premiere, which airs Sunday following a Super Bowl on NBC: