the hobbit movie release date

Director: Peter Jackson
Writers: J.R.R. Tolkien (based on a story), Fran Walsh (screenplay), and 3 more credits »
Stars: Cate Blanchett, Luke Evans and Elijah Wood
Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit, journeys to the Lonely Mountain accompanied by a group of dwarves to reclaim a treasure taken from them by the dragon Smaug.

Debra Messing splits from husband

Debra Messing has split from her husband Daniel Zelman.
The Will And Grace star - who has seven-year-old son Roman with the actor and producer - "privately separated" from Daniel earlier this year after 10 years of marriage.


Debra's representative told People: "The decision was mutual, and they remain supportive of one another and committed to raising their son as a family."
Debra, 43, and Daniel first met when they were both students at New York University and dated for eight years before they tied the knot.
She revealed in an interview in 2004: "I want my child to be like my husband. He is sensitive, really intelligent, really funny... but solid. He has a good sense of perspective."
The award-winning comic actress will next be seen starring in NBC's new musical drama Smash.

Debra Messing & Husband Split After 10 Years

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- CaptionDebra Messing and her husband of more than decade, actor/producer Daniel Zelman, have split.


“Debra Messing and Daniel Zelman privately separated earlier this year after a 10 year marriage,” a rep for the star of NBC’s upcoming series “Smash” said in a statement to Access Hollywood on Tuesday.

“The decision was mutual, and they remain supportive of one another and committed to raising their son as a family,” the statement continued.

Debra and Daniel are parents to son Roman, 7.

The former “Will & Grace” star announced her engagement to the “Damages” executive producer in 1999. The couple married the following year.

The pair actually met a decade before their wedding, when they were both pursuing post-graduate studies at NYU.

A rep for the actress did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Access Hollywood.

HBO yanks 'Hung' and 'Bored to Death,' picks up 'Enlightened'

So long Hung, Bored to Death, and How To Make It in America!
HBO has canceled the sleeper comedies to make way for more fresh programming coming down the pipeline. Hung and Bored each ran for three seasons, and America ran for two.
In the meantime, the pay cabler ordered a second season of Enlightened, the Laura Dern starrer that just earned Golden Globe nods for best TV series (comedy/musical) and for best actress.
In 2012, HBO will roll out Luck, a new drama from Michael Mann and David Milch that stars Dustin Hoffman; as well as Aaron Sorkin’s series about life behind the scenes of a cable-news show. The network will also premiere Veep, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Girls, Life’s Too Short, and Angry Boys.

'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,' 'Drive' Lead London Critics’ Circle Nominations

'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,' 'Drive' Lead London Critics’ Circle Nominations
Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer from "The Help" will go head-to-head in the supporting actress of the year category.

LONDON – This year’s London Critics’ Circle nomination list is a tale of two Scandis with Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Drive, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn leading the charge with six shots at glory apiece.
This year’s nominations also put Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer from The Help head-to-head in the supporting actress of the year category, both up against Sareh Bayat (A Separation), Vanessa Redgrave (Coriolanus) and Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom) in the battle to win the trophy.
Alfredson and Refn, both Scandinavian, find their films vying for the London Critics’ Circle’s top accolade, film of the year.
But both Drive and Tinker Tailor find themselves in heady competition with The Tree of Life, The Artist and Iranian drama A Separation also tilting at the top prize.
Alfredson misses out on a berth in the director of the year category with Refn going up against Lynne Ramsay (We Need To Talk About Kevin), Asghar Farhadi (A Separation), Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) and Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life) for the nod.
Voted for by over 120 U.K. film critics, broadcasters and writers, this year’s actor of the year will be one from George Clooney (The Descendants), Jean Dujardin (The Artist), Michael Fassbender (Shame), Ryan Gosling (Drive) and Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy).
Kirsten Dunst(Melancholia), Anna Paquin (Margaret), Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady), Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin) and Michelle Williams (My Week With Marilyn) all take nomination slots for actress of the year.
The Critics’ choice of supporting actor will be from Simon Russell Beale (The Deep Blue Sea), Kenneth Branagh (My Week With Marilyn), Albert Brooks (Drive), Christopher Plummer (Beginners) and Michael Smiley (Kill List).
The 32nd London Critics' Circle Film Awards will be dished out its annual awards at a ceremony on January 19 at BFI Southbank.
This year’s nods will be in aid of its charity partner, the British Film Institute, to help with the preservation and restoration of British film, in particular Hitchcock's nine silent features, as part of the BFI's landmark 'Rescue the Hitchcock 9’ campaign.

Gerard Butler Rescued After Surfing Accident

Gerard Butler
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FacebookTweetGerard Butler was pulled underwater and dragged over a rocky reef Sunday by a large set of waves while he was filming the surfing movie Of Men and Mavericks in Northern California. 

The actor, 42, was taken to Stanford Medical Center dazed but not seriously injured, after being rescued by a safety patrolman, according to ESPN.com.

"[Butler] had that 100-yard stare that surfers get after a two-wave hold-down or near-death experience," reports ESPN.

Piers Morgan Tries, Fails to Extricate Himself From U.K. Phone-Hacking Scandal

Well this doesn't look good.


Testifying before a government inquiry today in Great Britain about his alleged involvement in the phone hacking scandal, CNN talk-show host Piers Morgan didn't do himself any favors when he refused to answer questions about the illegal activities said to have occurred on his watch as the editor of the Daily Mail between 1995 and 2004.

"I have no reason...to believe [hacking] was going on," he told the London-based panel via video link.
During intense grilling, when asked whether he had listened in at any time to a voicemail the former Beatle left with his then-wife, Heather Mills, the newly departed America's Got Talent judge admitted that he had done so, and even acknowledged hearing Sir Paul singing "We Can Work It Out" as the couple were making up after a nasty fight.

But he declined to reveal who played the tape for him or how he even came to hear it on the grounds that "it would compromise a source."

It now appears that said source had broken the law as Mills has stated there was no way anyone might have heard the message unless she was hacked.

Per the U.K.'s Guardian, Morgan denied having listened to a hacked message. He also refuted suggestions that he was "directly involved" in hiring private investigators to ferret out information for the tabloid, nor did he condone the apparently widespread practice of paying police informants for tips.

Digging himself a deeper hole, when asked whether eavesdropping in on a private recording was ethical, the editor turned TV personality hedged.

"It doesn't necessarily follow that listening to someone else talking to someone else is unethical," he told the panel.