Ben Stiller to get British Comedy Award

La (AP) Ben Stiller has been honored for his comedy contributions through the British Academy of Film and tv.The group's La branch states Stiller will get the Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy.Veteran producer Nigel Lythgoe known as Stiller "an expert of comedy who, similar to the legendary filmmaker to whom this award is named, brings together the amazing multi-hyphenate talents of actor, author, director and producer."Lythgoe can serve as chairman of BAFTA La.Stiller will get the recognition in the Brittania Honours on November. 30, when actress Helena Bonham Carter and animator John Lasseter are also being recognized.The 45-year-old Stiller has gained box-office success and critical acclaim like a author, director, actor and producer. He'll next be seen opposite Eddie Murphy in "Tower Heist."Copyright 2011 Connected Press. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Ben Stiller PHOTO CREDIT AP Photo/Chris Pizzello La (AP) Ben Stiller has been honored for his comedy contributions through the British Academy of Film and tv.The group's La branch states Stiller will get the Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy.Veteran producer Nigel Lythgoe known as Stiller "an expert of comedy who, similar to the legendary filmmaker to whom this award is known as, brings together the amazing multi-hyphenate talents of actor, author, director and producer."Lythgoe can serve as chairman of BAFTA La.Stiller will get the recognition in the Brittania Honours on November. 30, when actress Helena Bonham Carter and animator John Lasseter will also be being recognized.The 45-year-old Stiller has gained box-office success and critical acclaim like a author, director, actor and producer. He'll next be viewed opposite Eddie Murphy in "Tower Heist."Copyright 2011 Connected Press. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Kate Winslet Praised by Richard Branson for Pulling His Mother From Fire

LONDON -- She didn't do much to help Leonardo DiCapriofrom perishing in the freezing waters of the Atlantic, but in real life, Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslethas proved rather more of a heroine.our editor recommendsKate Winslet Flees From Blaze On Richard Branson's Private Caribbean Island'Carnage' Trailer: Kate Winslet and Jodie Foster Freak Out in Roman Polanski's Film Adaptation (Video)Emmys 2011: Did Merging Minis and Movies Into One Category Help or Hurt? Business tycoon Richard Bransonhas described how Winslet -- who was staying on his Caribbean island retreat -- helped rescue his aging mother when a fire broke out in the main house in a scene he likened to a movie. PHOTOS: Emmy Nominees 2011 "Many thanks to Kate Winslet for helping to carry my 90-year old mum out of the main house to safety. She was wondering when a director was going to shout 'cut,' " he said in comments about the fire posted on his blog. "She swept her up into her arms and got them out as fast as possible," he said. "Special congratulations and lots of hugs went to Kate Winslet's two beautiful children, Mia, 10, and Joe, 7 - they were real troupers and two of the bravest children I've ever come across!" he added. The house on the Caribbean island of Necker was struck by lightning in a storm on Monday morning, leaving most of it destroyed, Branson said. All the 20 or so people caught up in the blaze managed to escape unhurt, and the serial entrepreneur has vowed to rebuild the luxury retreat. Winslet is nominated for an Emmy award as outstanding lead actress in a drama series for the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce. The miniseries received the most nominations overall with 21. Related Topics Kate Winslet International Mildred Pierce

'Last Exorcism' Follow up within the Works together with Author Damien Chazelle (Exclusive)

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for IFP The producers from the Last Exorcism are moving ahead having a follow up, tapping writerDamien Chazelle to create the follow-as much as the surprise summer time 2010 hit. The PG-13Exorcism, from production company Strike Entertainment (Kids of Males) and directed byDaniel Stamm,made $62.5 million worldwide on a tight budget of $1.six million. The found-footage Lionsgate release was written byAndrew GurlandandHuck Botko. A follow up was most likely confirmed thinking about the profitability from the first film. Studio Canal is financing the follow-up and production is slated to do this fall. Exorcism dedicated to an Evangelical preacher, performed by Patrick Fabian, who, after many years of carrying out exorcisms, decides to permit a documentary crew to film the final exorcism he intends to perform, to be able to show his jobs are a fraud. Chazelle continues to be busy lately: the author-director has additionally offered Grand Piano, a thriller spec, to Adrian Guerra.Guerra created Hidden, this years Ryan Reynolds-starring thriller.Eugenio Mira-- who helmed the The spanish language romantic thriller Agnosia -- is mounted on direct Piano, referred to like a Hitchcockian thriller in regards to a classical pianist. Chazelle, 25, switched his Harvard College senior thesis -- a musical titled Guy and Madeline on the Park Bench -- right into a feature that first showed in the Tribeca Film Festival last year. The film, that was directed by Chazelle, was launched in November by Variance Films. Chazelle's first spec script, The Claim, was acquired by Route One out of October. The thriller, that was featured about the 2010 Black List, centers on one father looking for his kidnapped daughter he or she must deal with a few who claims the kid is the daughter. Chazelle is symbolized by Gersh he's managedby Gary Ungar and Tyler Ruggeri of Exile Entertainment and the attorney is Don Steele ofHansen Jacobson Teller Hoberman Newman Warren & Richman LLP. Email: Daniel.Burns@THR.com Twitter: @DanielNMiller The Final Exorcism

Exclusive: Nigel Lythgoe Developing Family Singing Competition for that CW

Nigel Lythgoe The American Idol Show which means you Think You Are Able To Dance executive producer Nigel Lythgoe is within talks using the CW to setup a brand new singing competition in the youthful-skewing network. The show, which Nigel Lythgoe Prods. would produce, would concentrate on locating the next large family singing group. (One insider compared it to some search for the following generation Partridge Family.) Lythgoe can also be in talks with Dick Clark Prods., which is among the companies behind Which Means You Think You Are Able To Dance, in the future aboard like a production partner about the project. A singing show would follow-through about the CW leader Mark Pedowitz's means of putting more original fare about the air throughout every season - including more unscripted series. Earlier this year in the Television Experts Association press tour, Pedowitz told reporters he was wanting to put a singing competition about the air. He suggested at that time the CW is at talks having a major reality show producer - and Lythgoe would certainly fit that bill. "When it comes to reality, we are searching in a wide spectrum of things at this time,Inch Pedowitz stated at that time. "A vocal show is within discussions at this time. Whether we assemble it or otherwise, we'll see." Lythgoe's other credits include CMT's Next Celebrity and Fox's The quest for the following Great American Band. Dick Clark Prods., run by Orly Adelson, also produces the American Music Honours and also the Golden Globes. Lythgoe and also the CW rejected comment. Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!

Exclusive: New Kill List Poster

'They deserve to suffer'Could director Ben Wheatley be catapulting from Kill List to the A-list? Don't be against it, and definitely don't bet against him making a similar breakthrough to fellow Brit newcomers Duncan Jones and Gareth Edwards. Like Jones, he's a Cannes Lion winner in his previous life in advertising; like Edwards, he's a technical whiz with a DIY ethos; like both of them, he's seriously talented. Wheatley cut his teeth on taut Brit thriller Down Terrace, and the buzz building around his second feature would wake a dog on Pandora. Kill List has a classy new poster to add to the fever pitch. The film follows ex-hitman Jay (Neil Maskell) back from working in the Ukraine and under pressure to make ends meet. It's then that he's approached by an old mucker to take one final, lucrative contract. Before you can say oh-my-god-don't-do-it-it's-that-one-final-job-thing! , he signs on the dotted line. In blood. {Kill List Quad}. Jay is then given the titular hit list and told to act on it. As you can imagine - and as the tagline suggests with stark economy - he's not popping round to their houses with Easter eggs. But who are the names on the list and what do they have in common? Does that strange iconography on the poster have anything to do with it or has CND rebranded? All will be revealed when Kill List is out on September 2. Add it to your movie list. Do it, do it now.

Brooke Burke and David Charvet Marry

Brooke Burke and David Charvet Dwts co-host Brooke Burke and actor David Charvet tied the knot in St. Barts, their repetition verifies to individuals. "Morning tweeties. Awaiting LA to awaken....large news to talk about,Inch she tweeted 'life was imple'. See cure has become married this season Burke and Charvet, both 39, happen to be engaged for 5 years. There is a 3-year-old boy Shaya and 4 ½-year-old daughter Rain. Brooke also offers two kids, Sierra, 9, and Neriah, 11, from her previous marriage to Hollywood dental professional Garth Fisher.

Exclusive: Tim Sullivan delivers final cut of Chillerama

Director and producer Tim Sullivan has finally delivered a finished cut of the horror anthology film Chillerama to the Image Entertainment following a 12-year gestation period."Hard to believe, but today, after 12 years since creating it with Adam Rifkin and two years in production with Rif, Joe Lynch and Adam Green - today, the four of us are personally delivering the final finished version ofChilleramato Image Entertainment! Hell yeah baby!" he told his Facebook followers.Sullivan has directed one of the film's segments and recently previewed the project at Comic-Con.The plot centres around the closing night at the last drive-in theater in America, where Cecil B. Kaufman is showing a marathon of lost horror film prints - including Wadzilla, I Was A Teenage Werebear, The Diary Of Anne Frankenstein and Zom-B-Movie.The film gets its European premiere at FrightFest 2011, which is partnered for the third year running by Total Film and takes place at the Empire Cinema in Leicester Square between 25-29 August.Chillerama plays on Saturday 27 August at 11.30pm and tickets can be booked by calling 08 714 714 714 or by visiting www.empirecinemas.co.uk.

Claypot Curry Killers

An Astro Shaw presentation of a Tayangan Unggul, Hadir Dinamuk production. (International sales: Astro Shaw, Selangor, Malaysia.) Produced by Gayatri Su Lin Pillai, Hazil Izham Ismail. Directed, written by James Lee.With: Steve Yap, Debbie Goh, Mandy Chen, Olivia Kang, Pearlly Chua, Jeff Chin, Wong Wai-hoong, Ernest Chong, Elvis, Sunny Pang, Alan Cheong, Kok Jia-xian. (Mandarin, Cantonese dialogue)Although inspired by the Grand Guignol recipe of "Sweeney Todd," James Lee ultimately cooks up a splattery muddle in "Claypot Curry Killers." Having moved on from flavorless mellers ("Before We Fall in Love Again"), the Malaysian writer-helmer continues a dalliance with horror begun with "Histeria," with the same studied lack of skill demonstrated in his previous fest fillers. Pic has yet to be released domestically due to censorship issues, but even in more lax territories, its amateurism will limit its prospects. After discovering her drunken husband sexually abusing one of her three daughters, street hawker Mrs. Chew (Pearlly Chua) kills her spouse and serves up his remains to unsuspecting food-stall customers. Yarn leaps forward 10 years to establish that man meat has made her wealthy, but one of Chew's daughters now has a bloodlust that just won't quit. While Lee ladles on the gore and cribs jokes from Tarantino, his direction is as stiff as his lurching script, and neither does the marooned thesps any favors. Pic shows the same disregard for sound quality that made Lee's previous films so grating.Camera (color, DigiBeta), Mohammed Helmi Yusof; editor, Chris Khoo; music, Peter Toe; art director, Nazrul Asraff Mahzan. Reviewed at PiFan Film Festival (World Fantastic Cinema), July 15, 2011. Running time: 97 MIN. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Take advantage of Zombie slows lower for Lords Of Salem

Take advantage of Zombie states he's slowing down the pace of his next film The Lords Of Salem, both when it comes to the storytelling and also the release schedule."It is a much different kind of movie, it's much more dark compared to other films. Another films are pretty dark but that one much more," Zombie told Fangoria."The Halloween films are extremely physically violent as well as in that person but that one is reduced paced and much more mental and supernatural. It is a pretty dismal affair and that i hope it bums people out in a major way."Zombie states the results team have been focusing on the work for six several weeks ("they are way in front of the overall game") and he's began to consider casting.The film does not possess a release date yet but Zombie needs it will likely be around fall 2012."The final two films that I have done they have located in a totally impractical release date after which you are hurrying just like a maniac to complete the film," he revealed."With both Halloween movies I had been relaxing in the premier and that i could not remember what moments we'd cut or otherwise simply because they just rushed us through publish-production so rapidly that you are just confused. So this time around we'll possess the time for you to really polish it making it perfect."The Lords Of Salem plot sees a 300 year-old coven of ghouls besieging the city with past questionnable activity.

Bubba Smith, Football Star and 'Police Academy' Actor, Dies

Bubba Smith, a football star who went on to play a lovable lug in the Police Academy films and Miller Lite commercials, was found dead Wednesday at his Baldwin Hills home in Los Angeles. He was 66. Smith's body was discovered by a caretaker, police said. Officials believe he died of natural causes. The 6-foot-7 Charles Aaron Smith was a defensive lineman and future College Football Hall of Famer at Michigan State, then played nine seasons in the pros with the Baltimore Colts, Oakland Raiders and Houston Oilers from 1967-76. PHOTOS:Hollywood's Notable Deaths In the slapstick Police Academy films of the 1980s, Smith's character, the aptly named Moses Hightower, hovered over his fellow misfit cadets in the franchise's first film in 1984 and its five sequels. A florist joining the academy, Hightower had immense strength but was the most soft-spoken of all the characters that included Carey Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg), Eugene Tackleberry (David Graf), Larvelle Jones (Michael Winslow) and Zed McGlunk (Bobcat Goldthwait). Smith also starred in the short-lived television series Blue Thunder,partnering with Dick Butkus, another former NFL defensive star, and had regular roles in such other series as Semi-Tough, Open All Night and Half Nelson. He appeared in Blood River, a 2010 indie film. In the 1970s, Smith appeared in several Miller Lite commercials alongside the likes of Butkus, Rodney Dangerfield and Larry Csonka. In one memorable spot, he rips off the top of a beer can and he says, "I also love the easy-opening can." As a senior with Michigan State, Smith played in a legendary November 1966 game against Notre Dame in which Fighting Irish coach Ara Parseghianelected to run out the clock in a 10-10 tie, thus preserving his team's No. 1 ranking. Both teams finished the season undefeated, but the Spartans finished second in the polls. In East Lansing, Mich., Smith was extremely popular, with fans chanting, "Kill, Bubba, Kill." Michigan State retired his No. 95 jersey in 2006. The first overall selection in the 1967 NFL draft by the Colts, Smith, a native of Beaumont, Texas,won the Super Bowl V with Baltimore two years after losing the title game to the New York Jets and Joe Namath in a memorable upset. Related Topics Obituaries Bubba Smith

Strikeforce: Henderson versus Babalu 2

Primary Card * Light Heavyweight: Renato Sobral versus. Serta Henderson * Welterweight: Scott Cruz versus. Paul Daley * Middleweight: Robbie Lawler versus. Matt Lindland * Heavyweight: Antonio Silva versus. Mike Kyle * Light Heavyweight: Benji Radach versus. Ovince St. Preux Preliminary Card * Welterweight: Fernando Bettega versus. Wayne Phillips * Lightweight: Max Martyniouk versus. Justin Lawrence * Middleweight: Patrick Cummins versus. Terrell Brown * Middleweight: Lucas Lopes versus. Cortez Coleman * Lightweight: Thomas Aaron versus. Matt Ricehouse * Light Heavyweight: Lee Brousseau versus. Mike Glenn * Middleweight: Booker DeRousse versus. Coltin Cole * Catchweight (130 pounds.): Josh Epps versus. J.W. Wright