Will These Be the Biggest Popcorn Movies of the Fall?

The fall movie season is synonymous with prestige — from Moneyball to War Horse, the next four months will be filled with the Oscar nominees of tomorrow — but what if you want to continue the mindless fun of summer into the next season? Fear not! Hollywood has you covered with a bevy of big-budget popcorn films all seemingly designed to make summer truly endless. Which will be the biggest hits of the fall? Great question! As part of our fall movie preview, Movieline editors Christopher Rosen and Julie Miller have compiled a gallery of the fall’s biggest — but not necessarily brightest (cough, Jack & Jill) — potential smashes. Click here to launch the slideshow; films listed in order of release date.

Match During The Day 2

Colin Murray is became a member of by Alan Hansen and Lee Dixon for highlights from the day's four Premier League matches, including Manchester U . s . against Toolbox and Tottenham versus Manchester City. Champions U . s . two times beat Toolbox at Old Trafford last season, within the league and FA Cup, and also have increased their squad within the summer time using the large-money additions of David p Gea, Ashley Youthful and Phil Johnson. By comparison, Toolbox suffered a turbulent off-season, using the futures of unsettled pair Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri ruling the head lines. However, the Gunners by divine intention beat U . s . once they last met in May. Tottenham are unbeaten in your own home to Manchester City since 2003, but were usurped within the top four by Roberto Mancini's side last season. Ambitious City have again spent large this summer time because they aim to win the league title. You will find also highlights in the Hawthorns, where West Brom undertake Stoke, and action from St James' Park, the venue for Newcastle's match against Fulham.

Berg takes new BFI role

LONDON -- The British Film Institute has appointed Eddie Berg to the newly created role of director of partnerships. Berg, who had previously served as artistic director of BFI Southbank since 2005, will take up the role in September, where he will be responsible for leading the partnerships and new business opportunities teams to strengthen the film sector globally and throughout the U.K. Berg will report to BFI deputy chief exec Tim Cagney and will play a strategic role in the BFI, specifically developing the BFI's partnerships strategy for film in Blighty, working collaboratively with and nurturing existing partners. He will also focus on developing new international and national entrepreneurial partnerships from both the public and private sectors. Prior to BFI, Berg was the founder and chief exec of the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology in Liverpool. Contact Diana Lodderhose at diana.lodderhose@variety.com

Music biz runs for cloud cover

Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the iCloud at the 2011 Apple World Wide Developers Conference. Just eight years after the music industry experienced one of the most radical shifts in its history, it's finding itself on the verge of yet another revolution. The launch of iTunes in April 2003 certainly didn't introduce digital downloads to consumers (Napster and countless other illegal download sites were thriving at the time), but it legitimized the distribution method and made it profitable for artists and labels. Now Apple -- and a host of other companies -- are hoping customers are willing to walk away entirely from physically owning the music in their collection in favor of the cloud. Cloud-based music services are popping up left and right these days. The models vary from site to site, but the basic concept is the same. Users store their music remotely, and are then able to access it from virtually anywhere, as long as they have a compatible device (i.e. mobile phones, digital music players, tablets or computers) and (generally) an Internet connection. In theory, it's an incredible convenience. No longer will consumers have to physically transfer their digital music onto new devices. They simply buy it once and it's available anywhere. But it's not without hurdles. Some services require users to manually upload their collection to cloud storage -- a process that can take hours (or, in the case of musicphiles with extensive collections, a day or more). And should users be caught in an Internet dead zone, they may not be able to access their songs. On a more macro level, the question remains: Are people willing to once again change how they access their music -- and, in many cases, pay for songs they already own -- especially with so many other forms of entertainment competing for their dollar? Music industry officials are confident the answer is yes."I first started buying music on vinyl LPs," says Randy Grimmett, executive VP, membership at ASCAP. "I thought in my lifetime, I would always be attached to a physical product. As a consumer myself, I've given up that notion. I think consumers are very willing to move on to less physical control and think more about the access. Specifically: Where are they listening to it and where do they need it?"The landgrab that goes with any sort of industry revolution is well under way. Apple is on the verge of launching iCloud, which will sync iTunes purchases (previous or future) onto any iDevice for free. In addition, for $25 a year, the company will scan customers' computers and add any and all songs they've ripped themselves to the iCloud collection, using the iTunes version (in other words, there's no need to upload those MP3 files). "Keeping these devices in sync is driving us crazy," says Apple CEO Steve Jobs when unveiling the service in June. "It's the same old story. I buy something on my iPhone and it's not on my other devices. I grab my iPod and I go to listen to that song and it ain't there! (With iCloud) anything I've bought I can now download to any of my devices at no additional charge."Amazon and Google are looking to own a piece of the market as well with Cloud Drive and Google Music. Amazon offers a minimal amount of free space, with users paying more as they upload more, while Google has implied that it will charge subscribers when its service emerges from its test period. Apple, as you might guess, has the upper hand. The company has already sold 15 billion songs through iTunes -- along with 200 million iOS devices, which will all be upgraded to iCloud with a software push this fall. In addition, it made sure to secure label support before rolling the service out, something Google and Amazon haven't done.Google argues that it's simply offering a storage platform. Amazon uses a similar argument and notes it already has rights to sell digital music files. (Labels maintain that's different from a cloud storage and distribution system.) "The labels don't feel like they were properly acknowledged or licensed by Amazon," Grimmett says. On the other side of the fence are streaming services like Spotify and Pandora -- which offer both free and subscription options, letting consumers bypass ownership all together in favor of having access to catalogs of million and millions of tracks -- all delivered to them online. Sweden-based Spotify, in particular, has shown tremendous momentum, gathering 1.4 million members in its first month of introduction in the U.S. -- and converting 175,000 of those (a whopping 12.5%) to paying customers. Streaming music might seem like a losing play for labels, but the companies say they carefully structure deals so it's a victory for both sides. "Spotify is now the second single-largest source of digital music revenue for labels in Europe, making sure that artists get a fair deal," says Ken Parks, its chief content officer and managing director of North America. "Spotify is generating serious revenues for rights holders, labels, publishers and the artists that they represent. We have paid tens of millions of euros to rights holders since our launch, who, in turn, pass this on to artists."The emergence of the cloud could bring a pair of new power players into the music business, though -- one that would have been unthinkable 10 years ago: Telecoms and cable companies. While Comcast, Cablevision, Time Warner, AT&T and Verizon don't control all the nation's bandwidth, they're by far the country's dominant Internet service providers. And since they're the ones that determine rates and bandwidth caps, it gives them a lot of potential clout. On top of that, because Internet service isn't free, consumers may not realize they're paying twice -- or even three times, depending on how many outlets they use -- to access their music: Once to purchase a track; again to stream it to their computer or other home media device; and again, perhaps, to their mobile phones. For now, though, music lovers aren't considering the costs. And ISP providers seem to be sitting on the sidelines with their focus not so much on music's cloud, but video's. "At some point we may see a battle royal when data packages become skinnier and cloud applications gain ubiquity," says Russ Crupnick, president of NPD Entertainment at the NPD Group. "Today, consumers say overwhelmingly that they are unwilling to pay extra for 'things' that would get them access. So the collision comes when on one hand they've got to pay for a subscription to get the services on a device and on the other when there's a premium for bandwidth. This concerns me more for video actually where the demands are significantly higher than for music." Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

ABC Snags a Futuristic Shawn Ryan Drama and Jekyll and Hyde-Inspired Project

Shawn Ryan ABC has snagged a drama pilot from The Shield creator Shawn Ryan, as well as Hyde, a drama loosely inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, TVGuide.com has confirmed. Ryan's drama, The Last Resort, is a futuristic thriller about the crew of a U.S. nuclear submarine who refused direct orders to fire nuclear missiles and must go on the lam. They find sanctuary at a NATO base where they declare themselves the world's smallest nuclear nation. Ryan and Karl Gajdusek (Dead Like Me) came up with the concept and are writing the project together. Shawn Ryan and Simon Mirren book procedural pilot at CBS This is Ryan's second drama pilot obtained this season. His crime procedural with Criminal Minds' Simon Mirren was just bought by CBS. ABC has also bought a drama from Sheldon Turner (Up In the Air) that is a contemporary look at the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story about a young ER doctor with a degenerative eye condition. Of course, the experimental treatment he undergoes has some unusual side effects that cause him to have a split personality. Jennifer Klein (Armageddon) will also executive-produce. The news was first reported by Deadline.

Keck's Exclusives: NCIS Gets Ready for the Big 200

Pauley Perrette, NCIS With TV's top scripted show approaching its 200th episode in early 2012, NCIS exec producer Gary Glasberg is pulling out all the stops. Among the reveals coming up: Abby will meet a brother. "The story is so lovely and unexpected," says Glasberg, promising that this will change Abby's whole perception of her past. "There is a big, stunning twist," adds Pauley Perrette, who is campaigning for her real-life male doppelgänger, ex-model Daniel Louis Rivas, to play the role. A personal Ducky episode will introduce a possible new love interest. A November two-parter will take Gibbs overseas. Both Tony's father and Gibbs' father will return. A spring wedding for Palmer and his embalmer fiancée is planned for season's end. And for that 200th episode, Glasberg says, "We came up with a unique, unexpected story to help us look back on everything prior. You're going to see faces you haven't seen in a long time." Among them: Gibbs' murdered wife Shannon and daughter Kelly, plus recently deceased Mike Franks. Alas, Lauren Holly's Jenny Shepard... likely not. Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Jessica Simpson Tweets She Wasnt Drunk Swaying At Adele Show

FIRST Released: August 16, 2011 5:00 PM EDT La, Calif. -- Jessica Simpson likes Adele a great deal however the happy expression about the reality stars face as she left the British performers show in La on Monday evening had nothing related to alcohol. You will find gossips which i was drunk swaying in the Adele concert last evening. That wasnt drunk swaying, which was professional dancing! Jessica Tweeted on Tuesday morning. Jessica attended the concert alongside her fianc, former National football league player Eric Manley, even though she claims she wasnt inebriated, her best friend Cacee Cobbs boyfriend, former Scrubs star Jesse Faison, accepted he'd a hangover. Tuesday, Despite a hangover like hammer cant touch this But youre still the worst day each week. Just saying, he authored. Other stars who attended Adeles La show in the Greek Theater incorporated Private Practices Kate Walsh, Glees Dianna Agron and Amber Riley, and Hells Kitchen chef Gordon Ramsay. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All privileges reserved.These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Third Times A Charm For Bridget Jones

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Dust off that diary, Renee Zellweger. Working Title Films is moving forward with a third installment of the Bridget Jones films, according to Entertainment Weekly. While no additional details were immediately available, Colin Firth who plays the lovably noble Mark Darcy in the hit movies spilled plot details to Access Hollywood guest correspondent Dave Karger last year. I can tell you that Bridget and Mark cant have children, I think thats the way it goes on, Colin said at the time. So then she makes the huge mistake of going back to Daniel Cleaver [played by Hugh Grant] for long enough to get pregnant. And I think he dumps her, and shes left stranded, and guess who comes back to rescue her? Additionally, back in March, the London Evening Standard reported that Helen Fielding (author of the wildly popular Bridget Jones novels on which the films are based) had begun working on a third book. I will be working on both the book and the film but I dont know if they are the same thing yet. Its not been decided, Helen said. The first film, Bridget Joness Diary, released in 2001, grossed $281 million internationally, while 2004s sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, took in $262 million, according to EW. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Julie Christie, Susan Sarandon and Richard Jenkins Join Robert Redford's Company

Here’s some big casting news to spice up this particularly slow news day: Julie Christie, Susan Sarandon and Richard Jenkins will star in The Company You Keep, the drama which Robert Redford will direct and star in alongside Shia LaBeouf, Nick Nolte and Brit Marling. The film is being adapted from Neil Gordon’s novel about “an ex-Weather Underground militant wanted by the FBI for 30 years, who must go on the run when his true identity is exposed by a young, ambitious reporter.” Production begins in Vancouver next month. [Deadline]

New poster for The Adventures Of Tintin

A new poster has been released for The Adventures Of Tintin.Doing much the same job as the trailer, this version shows a lot of the action that can be expected in the film (a pirate ship, rafting, a bi-plane) and adds a motorcycle sidecar with faithful dog Snowy in the passenger seat.The big question seems to be whether the 3D CGI is going to be this photo-realistic? If so, they might as well have used real actors. Just a thought.Directed by Steven Spielberg, The Adventures Of Tintin stars Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.It opens in UK cinemas on 26 October 2011.

NBC orders 'Frankenstein' revival

NBC has ordered a drama script billed as a modern-day take on the legend of Frankenstein. Script comes from two of the exec producers of "House," Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner, via that series' studio, Universal Media Studios, and BermanBraun. "House" is coming up on its eighth and likely final season; Fox has signaled it does not intend to go further, though UMS has the option to shop it elsewhere. UMS is a logical home for a Frankenstein revival given that Universal Studios owns the intellectual property rights to classic movie monsters including Dracula, the Wolfman and the Mummy. Frankenstein has proved a popular subject on the feature side, with at least six different productions in development at 20th Century Fox, Summit, Universal and Lakeshore Entertainment to name a few. Friend and Lerner are writing partners who have been on "House" since 2005, graduating to exec producers in the fourth season. Their previous credits include "Martial Law," "Smallville," "Roswell" and "Boston Public." Contact Andrew Wallenstein at andrew.wallenstein@variety.com

DirecTV beats estimations

Satellite Television provider DirecTV Group Corporation. stated Thursday that it is net gain within the second quarter elevated 29 percent since it's customer base increased, particularly in Latin America.But the organization added far less customers within the U.S. of computer has in the past quarters -- 26,000 in comparison with 100,000 within the same period last year. Its shares fell 3 % in premarket buying and selling.The country's second-greatest provider of pay-TV services stated Thursday that it is net gain rose to $701 million, or 91 cents per share. That's up from $543 million, or 42 cents per share, last year.Its revenue increased 13 percent to $6.6 billion from $5.85 billion.Experts had expected earnings of 85 cents per share on revenue of $6.55 billion, based on FactSet.The organization added 472,000 internet customers in Latin America throughout the quarter, ending the time with 6.7 million. The demand was mainly from South america. Within the U.S., its primary supply of revenue, it ended the quarter with 19.4 million customers.Nomura analyst Mike McCormack had expected the organization to include 460,000 customers in Latin America and 56,000 within the U.S. -- the second a lot more than two times around what the organization reported.DirecTV, that is located in El Segundo, Calif., blamed competition and "ongoing economic weakness" because of its lackluster customer development in the U.S.The organization has a lot more than tens of millions of customers in Latin America, but it doesn't own a complete stake in most of their companies in the area. Due to this, the amount of customers it claims for is lower.The business's shares fell $1.46, or 3 %, to $48.01 in premarket buying and selling Thursday. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com