The Grey Leads the Pack at the Box Office

The Grey, Liam Neeson Liam Neeson's latest action film, The Grey, lead the pack of a trio of new film releases, Box Office Mojo reports. The Grey grossed an estimated $20 million in its first weekend of release. Underworld: Awakening fell one spot to No. 2, taking in $12.5 million. Box office: Underworld: Awakening comes out on top In its first weekend of release, One For the Money came in third place, grabbing $11.7 million. Red Tails followed in fourth place with $10.4 million. Man on a Ledge, also in its opening weekend, completed the top 5, raising $8.3 million. In sixth place, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close drew $7.1 million. The Descendants rose from No. 16 to No. 7, attracting $6.5 million. Rounding out the top 10: Contraband (No. 8, $6.5 million), Beauty and the Beast 3D (No. 9, $5.3 million) and Haywire (No. 10, $4 million). Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol just missed the top 10, but became the highest grossing installment in the 15-year-old franchise, earning $571 million globally.

U fitted for sci-fi 'Prosthesis'

PalepUniversal is trying on "Prosthesis," setting up development of a sci-fi feature with The Gotham Group and 1stAveMachine producing and Arvind Palep directing.Studio acquired "Prosthesis" after execs saw Palep's 10-minute teaser presentation blending VFX with storyboards and live-action footage.Palep co-created multimedia production banner 1stAveMachine with Serge Patzak, who will produce the film with Gotham Group topper Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Eric Robinson. Peter McHugh and Sam Penfield will exec produce.Details of the world Palep has created for "Prosthesis" are being kept under wraps other than it will rely on Palep's ability to create immersive worlds parallel to our own. No screenwriter is attached."?'Prosthesis' is an epic, in the purest sense of the word, and Arvind's vision and take on the human condition will blow audiences away," Robinson said.Anikah McLaren will oversee the project for the studio.Gotham Group's feature producing credits include "Abduction" and "The Spiderwick Chronicles." Media production banner 1stAveMachine consists of 10 directors who create TV ads, branded online content and interactive content along with developing TV and feature projects.Palep and 1stAveMachine were repped in the deal by WME, Gotham Group and attorney George Davis. Gotham Group was repped by CAA and Davis. Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

Hilmar Gudjonsson: From football to 'Flags'

Hilmar GudjonssonA former football player, Hilmar Gudjonsson first came out on-camera inside a small role in Clint Eastwood's "Flags within our Fathers." An attractive debut, nevertheless the 27-year-old shrugs it well, saying, "Well, initially I used to be one more, however ended up you receive one scene to accomplish, in pretty odd conditions. Therefore I arrived at meet Clint, also to act opposite Ryan Philippe. It absolutely was pretty awesome -- though afterwards,Inch he laughs, "I felt like I'd had cardiac event!Inch And people odd conditions? "Well, there has been about 600 accessories in many, and many of them happen to be worrying they weren't undergoing treatment perfectly, so lots quit. After 2 days there has been a maximum of 150 left. And really, to a different week I truly considered quitting too. But that round-the-clock they referred to as me in and asked for me to determine. And out of the blue I'm inside the movie." After graduation from theater school this season, Gudjonsson was hired with the Reykjavik City Theater, and contains since came out in four productions. He needed his first film lead in Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson's dramedy "Either In Situation,Inch which recently acquired kudos within the Turin fest, and could soon be viewed in Oskar Thor Axelsson pic "Black's Game." Asked for whose career he'd probab to emulate, he responds getting a thoughtful, surprising choice: "I'm really interested in Kate Winslet, in truth. She's kind of the most popular -- not just because she's intelligent, but because she seems to supply everything she will get, in every single role she does. Which is fascinating and inspiring to check out.In . Return to the Berlin Preview >> Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Report: Heidi Klum to Divorce Seal

Heidi Klum and Seal Is it over between Heidi Klum and Seal?Check out photos of Heidi KlumThe supermodel and Project Runway host is set to file for divorce from her husband of six and a half years next week, TMZ reports. According to the site, Klum will cite "irreconcilable differences."The couple, who are known for their vow renewal ceremonies every year, have four children: sons Henry, 6, and Johan, 5, and daughters Leni, 7, and Lou, 2. Leni, whom Seal adopted in 2009, is Klum's daughter with Flavio Briatore.Check out photos of SealKlum, 38, and Seal, 48, met in 2003 while she was pregnant with Leni. The Grammy winner proposed on a glacier in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, in December 2004, and they wed five months later in Mexico.

See Jersey Shore's Snooki Without Makeup

Snooki Jersey Shoreline star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi is revealing a completely new look - sans makeup. "No constitute day : ) and [I don't care]," Snooki tweeted. Jersey Shore's Deena on Vinny's departure and why she switched lower Season 1 The reality star, recognized for her high hair, false lashes, fake tan and glitzy makeup, received lots of positive tweets on her behalf fresh-face look. Snooki's clean look comes right after co-star Sammi Giancola got her makeunder for XOJane.com. Have a look at really current day news Do you want the Jersey Shoreline women less composed?

'Glee': Cory Monteith Returning for Season 4

When Lea Michele returns to the mysterious fourth season of Glee after her character graduates, she won't be alone: her on-screen boyfriend, Cory Monteith, will be along for the ride as well."Yes, I'll be back," Monteith told The Hollywood Reporter on Sunday at Fox's Television Critics Association winter press tour party in Pasadena. "I'm very excited."The news comes hours after Fox Entertainment president Kevin Reilly officially pulled the plug on a potential Glee spinoff that could have seen Michele's Rachel be joined by Monteith's Finn and Chris Colfer's Kurt head to NY. Instead, Reilly announced that Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy had come up with a conceit to have Season 3's graduating seniors return next season, noting that Michele would officially return."Ryan has come up with a brilliant, ground-breaking idea for how to include us graduating high school seniors into next season and it's really exciting," Michele told THR. "We don't want to give away the new formula but I'm excited and Cory is so excited to be coming back next year. When we heard Ryan's plan, it really made us even more thrilled."Reilly told reporters Sunday that he's "alluding to some version" of a show within a show that the spring batch of the episodes would set up the plan for next season, with Monteith noting that a lot of characters and their story lines will head in a "bit of a different direction" in the back half of the current third season."People are going to graduate and their story lines will carry on through graduation into Season 4, also keeping the William McKinley High School paradigm intact and building in elements of characters who have graduated," he said. "It's a very cool way they've figured out how to do that."Plans for the future of Glee became murky after co-creator Murphy told The Hollywood Reporter in July that the trio would not be returning for Season 4 with co-creator Brad Falchuk telling fans at Comic-Con days later that the trio "are not done with the show after this season."Falchuk noted that a NY-set spinoff revolving around the trio as Colfer and Michele's characters moved toward their Broadway aspirations was among the ideas being explored at the time. That was something we were planting as a possibility, but we didnt get much further than that, he said in July, noting that the seeds were planted during the Season 2 finale when the cast went to NY.Colfer, meanwhile, told TheInsider.com on Sunday that he would be returning for Season 4: "Yes. I'm coming back. Ryan's idea is kind of revolutionary. It's the best of both worlds. Everyone is going to like it." The Hollywood Reporter

Silverman decides Pollak for key publish

Ben Silverman will get his old team back together again.The founding father of Electus has hired John Pollak as leader in the studio's worldwide division. He labored since the worldwide chief at Silverman's previous company, Reveille, as did the recently named Boss of Electus, Chris Grant."Such as the beginning at Reveille, we are using a technique for supply the finest possible revenue towards the creative partners," mentioned Grant.Pollak will oversee distribution of Electus' programming additionally to programs and formats from third-party companies.The Electus stable includes unscripted series for instance "MasterChef" and "The Finest Loser" and scripted game game titles like "The Listener" and "Archer."The hire determines a completely new division, Electus Worldwide, that develops around the partnership the business had with Engine Entertainment to cope with overseas sales and purchases. Engine Boss Chris Phillip will stay onto guide a completely new global scripted production initiative.Pollak comes over from Shine Worldwide, which formerly absorbed Reveille. Contact Andrew Wallenstein at andrew.wallenstein@variety.com

Cybill Shepherd to Star Opposite Jennifer Love Hewitt in The Client List

The Client List, Cybill Shepherd and Jennifer Love Hewitt Cybill Shepherd has signed on to star in Lifetime's drama series adaptation of The Client List, Deadline reports. In the original TV movie and upcoming series, Jennifer Love Hewitt plays Riley, a Texas housewife who's deserted by her husband and subsequently launches a massage parlor that offers sex healing in addition to therapeutic massages. Shepherd will reprise her role as Riley's mother, Lynette. Check out the rest of today's news This is Shepherd's first series regular role since starring in the '90s sitcom Cybill. The 61-year-old actress has since guest-starred on Psych, Eastwick and The L Word.