Exclusive Trailer of MTV's I Just Want My Pants Back

I Just Want my Pants Back Jason Strider just wants his pants back. Is that so much to ask? In MTV's upcoming comedy series I Just Want My Pants Back, the Brooklyn-dwelling 20-something falls in love with a one-night stand - and subsequently commences a quest to find her (and his pants that she stole the next morning).The series, which premieres Thursday, Feb. 2 at 11/10c on MTV, is based on the book by David J. Rosen, and follows Strider and his three best friends as they struggle with postcollegiate life in NY.Check out the trailer:

Kenneth Branagh 'My Week With Marilyn' Live Q&A: Today at 2 P.M. EST!

If you enjoyed 'My Week With Marilyn,' here's some great news: today at 2 p.m. EST, star Kenneth Branagh -- who plays Sir Laurence Olivier in the new film -- will participate in a live web chat from Sweden where he'll answer your questions. Curious what it was like on the set of 'My Week With Marilyn'? Want to know Sir Kenneth's thoughts on his co-star, Michelle Williams, who plays the luminous Marilyn Monroe? Or just ask him something about his lengthy career? Here's your chance. Fans can participate by sending in their own questions -- head over to Huffington Post to participate or watch the streaming event below. 'My Week With Marilyn' is in theaters now. To find out more about the film, visit Facebook. [Photo: TWC] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Majors mull new trade charges in Argentina

Argentina hopes to improve trade charges to steer U.S. majors who bring films to the country for exhibition to export Argentinean content abroad, including films and tv series. This can help sustain production in the country where Hollywood rules el born area office. The us government requested professionals from Disney, Fox, The brand new the new sony, Universal and WB with a first round of talks Tuesday after delivering them the nuances of 120 films from 40 producers and a lot of TV productions offered by Dori Media Group, Endemol and Telefe Intl. among others. "You need to export grains, machinery, technology, but it's essential to export free airline, our values," Argentina's Leader Cristina Fernandez p Kirchner mentioned to noisy applause within the meeting. The costs already modify the vehicle industry where BMW, for instance, must export goods from Argentina to equal the requirement for the cars it sells for the country. Liliana Mazure, prexy in the Incaa national film board, suggested each major will have to export four to five Argentine features a year and various TV series. An expense for films and series might be searching for each territory, with obligations made upfront and not based on results. This can be a sticking point for your majors, which are looking in the government's proposal. Pablo Sahores, Disney's director of theatrical distribution in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, mentioned its affil, Patagonik Film Group, was already offerring local films. He thinks Disney "should not have difficulty in fulfilling the government's proposal, for film exports no less than.In . This really is really the government's latest push to boost production and expand shops for your most widely used film industry in Latin America, which produces 100 features a year. It's launched a DTT system for local producers and hiked taxes on foreign distribution, wanting to obtain additional screen in time a business where Hollywood rules 85% of admissions. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com

Bradley Cooper Eager to Shoot 'Hangover III'; Says Todd Phillips Is Working on Script (Video)

Veteran filmmaker Bruce Beresford has signed on to develop and direct Taliesin, a film about fabled American architect Frank Lloyd Wright from writer Nicholas Meyer. our editor recommendsRon Burkle Buys Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House for Just Under $4.5 Mil The title refers to the architect's former home and studio in rural Spring Green, Wis., where the key events in the film take place. The rambling hillside compound, considered a masterpiece of Prairie-style architecture, was the focus of scandal as Wright built it for himself and his married mistress Martha "Mamah" Cheney. In 1914, while Wright was away, a domestic worker murdered Cheney, her two children and four others by locking them inside and setting fire to the building. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Biggest Real Estate Deals of the Week: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, Jennifer Hudson, Robert De Niro "It's a very good script," Beresford toldThe Hollywood Reporter. "It doesn't cover his whole life, just a small section of it, and it doesn't whitewash him into some sort of saint." Beresford, who directed the best picture Oscar winner Driving Miss Daisy (1990) and was nominated for best director for Tender Mercies (1983), says he sparked to telling the tale of the private life of one of the greatest architects ever. "There's a documentary by Ken Burns [the 1998 film, Frank Lloyd Wright] that's quite good, but it's odd that there's never been a [feature] film about him," Beresford said. Producers J. Todd Harris, of Branded Pictures Entertainment, and Chicago-based Ed Bachrach, of Kartemquin Films, sent Beresford the script. They are currently raising money for the project, and Beresford has recently been scouting locations in and around Chicago. STORY: Ron Burkle Buys Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House for Just Under $4.5 Mil Who would Beresford like to play the lead? "We have someone in mind, but I can't tell you yet," he says. Beresford's Peace, Love and Misunderstanding, a generational comedy starring Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener and Elizabeth Olsen, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this year and was picked up today by IFC Films. Beresford is repped by Gersh and Anonymous. Meyer, repped by CAA and Bloom Hergott, recently penned Elegy and The Informant!. PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Hollywood's Real Estate Deals of the Week: Oprah Winfrey, Bruce Willis, 'Twilight' Honeymoon House, Justin Bieber's Manager Related Topics

Lou Reed-Metallica Video Directed by Darren Aronofsky (VIDEO)

It has been almost monthly since Darren Aronofsky broken many of us along with his anti-very meth ads. The screaming, the blood stream, a health care facility gurneys -- these take part in the 'Black Swan' filmmaker's fascination with studying the human overuse injury in most likely probably the most visceral way possible. Fortunately, really the only frightening factor inside the new Aronofsky-directed music video for Lou Reed and Metallica's 'The View,' is, well, the music activity. The song originates from the recently released Reed/Metallica collaboration album, 'Lulu.' The critical a reaction to the record hasn't exactly been glowing -- although, that didn't matter to Aronofsky, who was simply intrigued the first time he heard 'The View.' "The first time I heard [it] I used to be stunned," Aronofsky told IFC. "I'd never heard anything appreciate it. Half was all Lou. Another half all Metallica. It absolutely was a relationship that initially made no sense, nevertheless the fusion changed the means by that we figured about both artists and morphed into something completely brand new and fresh. I possibly could not stop hearing it. Lou's crushing lyrics, as well as the band's incredible licks." Although Aronofsky's signature disaster-and-despair story is absent inside the video, the clip comes with a few jarring moments, including shaky closeups on Reed and Metallica lead singer James Hetfield. Aronofsky is presently in the office on his Noah's Ark film, 'Noah.' [via Pitchfork and IFC] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Keck's Exclusives: Will Arnett Can get an Up With The Evening Brother, Plus New-Episode Sneak Look!

Dean Winters NBC's Up With The Evening is giving Will Arnett's Chris a brother, as well as the actor playing him has some impressive TV street cred.Actor Dean Winters - recognized for his roles as Save Me's Johnny Gavin, 30 Rock's Dennis Duffy, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicle's Charley Dixon, Oz's Ryan O'Reily and Law & Order: SVU's John Cassidy - can to research the NBC sitcom noisy . 2012 as Chris's competitive brother, Casey.To ensure that as an additional benefit to suit your needs Up With The Evening fans, here is a unique preview clip using this week's episode, "First Christmas," airing Wednesday, December 7 at 8/7c, with guest looks from Jason Lee and Blythe Danner.The newcomer sitcom's first holiday episode finds Christina Applegate's Reagan prone to great measures to produce daughter Amy's first Christmas picture perfect. Meaning consuming her pride and achieving the assistance of her mother (Danner). Meanwhile, Chris hits the mall searching for a perfect gift for his wife, well as over within the TV studio, Maya Rudolph's Ava frets that they're going to lose boyfriend Kevin (Lee), when he decides to take a position the holiday along with his ex-wife. Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

'Dragon Tattoo' Producer Bans Critic for Breaking Embargo

Producer Scott Rudin has banned NYer critic David Denby from screenings of his future movies because the "NYer" is breaking a Dec. 13 embargo on reviews of David Fincher's "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" by publishing a review in its new issue, which hits newstands and the publication's iPad app on Monday.In an e-mail exchange with Denby, published at Indiewire.com, Rudin wrote, "You've very badly damaged the movie by doing this, and I could not in good conscience invite you to see another movie of mine again."Denby and fellow members of the NY Film Critics Circle saw the film early, on Nov. 28, because it was meeting to vote for the year's best films Nov. 29. (The critics' group actually postponed its meeting, originally set for Nov. 28, by a day in order to screen the movie before they deliberated.) The group chose the early voting date for the first time this year so that they would be the first major awards group to announce winners.Sony Pictures Entertainment executive vp motion pictures publicity Andre Caracoalso sent a stinging memo Sunday criticizing Denby(see entire e-mail below) to critics in an attempt to maintain the embargo. "As a matter of principle, the 'NYer's' breach violates a trust and undermines a system designed to help journalists do their job and serve their readers," Caraco wrote. "We have been speaking directly with the 'NYer' about this matter and expect to take measures to ensure this kind of violation does not occur again."Denby's move also drew criticism from other members of the NYFCC, particularly since Denby had lobbied against the group's taking an early vote, which, ironically, led to the early screening of Fincher's movie. "Sony was very explicit about us not running anything early," NYFCC president John Anderson toldThe Hollywood Reporter. "The screening was specifically for our consideration as NYFCC voters, and unless David had a different conversation than I, he agreed to the same thing the rest of us did. There may be mitigating factors, but I don't know for a fact that there were, and don't now what they might have been. We abide by embargoes all the time.""The NYFCC has been excoriated in some quarters," said Anderson, "for supposedly wanting to be 'first' this year (writers have consistently ignored the other reasons I've provided). But it's precisely a desperation to be first that is complicating the relationship between movie studios and critics, journalists and the rest of the legitimate media. Having what you might call a gentleman's agreement about when we write our reviews is hardly a moral compromise. And I can understand a company wanting some control over its product. Frankly, we have no right to see movies early; we get to do so as a courtesy. And perhaps the whole process should be abolished -- if everyone had to go to the theater to see everything, it would level the playing field, and no one would have to 'play ball' in order to maintain their access." Denby's review, which is largely positive, begins, "You can't take your eyes off Rooney Mara as the notorious Lisbeth Salandar, in the American movie version of Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." And it concludes, "This is a bleak but mesmerizing piece of filmmaking; it offers a glancing, chilled view of a world in which brief moments of loyalty flicker between repeated acts of denial."In his email exchange with Rudin, Denby explained the decision to break the embargo on the movie, which opens Dec. 21, by saying there were two many important films opening at the end of the year for the NYer to accomodate them all. It would have had to run them as either short reviews or wait until January to deal with them at more length. "It was not my intention to break the embargo, and I never would have done it with a negative review. But since I liked the movie, we came reluctantly to the decision to go with early publication," the critic wrote. "I apologize for the breach of the embargo. It won't happen again. But this was a special case brought on by year-end madness."Rudin responded that Denby's explanations were "disingenuous" and "nonsense." He added, "You will now cause ALL of the other reviews to run a month before the release of the movie, and that is a deeply destructive thing to have done." Within the NYFCC, Denby has been accused of being inconsistent for racing to publish the first "Tattoo" review. He was among the loudest voices urging his fellow critics not to vote on winners early. "What's so important about being first?" he demanded in the following "huffy" e-mail Oct. 25:Dear NYFCC Member:We apologize for the huffy tone of what follows (and trust us, we feel duly guilty that we didn't attend the business meeting), but this is too important for us to ignore. We're unhappy with the Circle's decision to vote on November 28. We think it's potentially a major mistake, and are unlikely to vote at all if November 28 remains the date. There are multiple reasons for this dissent.First of all, it's extremely unlikely that all the major Christmas movies will be shown before the meeting. We realize that the whole premise of this super-early voting date is that since the studios show their films to the National Board of Review, they'll agree to show them to us as well. But the members of the NBR aren't working critics. From the studios' point of view, there's a lot less politics involved in showing the movies early to them. Most of the December movies may be done now, but that doesn't mean that marketing divisions and producers and directors (who make these decisions, not publicists) will allow us to see them early.And here's the crux of the issue. Let's say that the overwhelming majority of the studios do decide to show their films in time for us. Let's imagine that there's only one holdout - say, the studio releasing "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." Is the NY Film Critics Circle really going to vote for Best Picture of the Year without seeing the new David Fincher film? (Please don't squawk if you don't happen to like Fincher, or Swedish-set art thrillers; it's just an example.) Voting without the opportunity to see that one film - or any other movie you might name - would be a serious breach of the Circle's integrity. It would violate the idea that we work from a level playing field.Don't forget, as well, that the meeting, as scheduled, comes right after the Thanksgiving holiday (a shortened week when, traditionally, almost nothing gets screened), and that there are lots of movies opening in late November that we all have to deal with. The jam-up would be unworkable. Are we really going to be able to see, and absorb, the 25 to 30 awards-season movies opening in December by the end of the third week in November? Is Steven Spielberg really going to let us see "The War Horse," which is opening on Christmas day, five weeks before opening? It seems seriously doubtful. Even if all the major releases are shown to us, smaller, less heralded films drop into circulation in early and mid December, and we would need to consider those as well for possible awards. It would be a travesty of our history, which is rich with independent and idiosyncratic votes, if we allowed those movies to fall out of consideration.An additional point: Even if we're able to see everything in November, many of us, who like to work from fresh impressions, would need to see those movies again later in order to review them. Major inconvenience.But what we're really wondering is this: Why is it so important to be first? Why is it important at all? Who cares when the National Board of Review announces its choices? They aren't critics, and by trumping them, we're taking them more seriously than they should be taken.And putting it crassly, how does being first benefit us as a group? Our names are not listed in the news articles or the blurbs that run with the ads announcing awards. If we rush into the awards-season madness, aren't we simply reinforcing its destructive effect on release schedules, in which half the interesting movies of the year are held for the final weeks? Aren't we putting ourselves on the same level as the publicists and the Harvey Weinsteins who are trying to game the awards, joining the very thing that we normally deplore?If all the movies, by some miracle, are shown before November 28, and we can see them, then we will vote. But otherwise, we'll take a pass this year and vote again when the group comes to its senses.Here is Sony's Dec. 4 Dragon Tattoo e-mail:Dear Colleague,All who attended screenings of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo agreed in writing to withhold reviews until closer to the date of the film's worldwide release date. Regrettably, one of your colleagues, David Denby of The NYer, has decided to break his agreement and will run his review on Monday, December 5th. This embargo violation is completely unacceptable.By allowing critics to see films early, at different times, embargo dates level the playing field and enable reviews to run within the films' primary release window, when audiences are most interested. As a matter of principle, the NYer's breach violates a trust and undermines a system designed to help journalists do their job and serve their readers. We have been speaking directly with The NYer about this matter and expect to take measures to ensure this kind of violation does not occur again. In the meantime, we have every intention of maintaining the embargo in place and we want to remind you that reviews may not be published prior to December 13th.We urge all who have been given the opportunity to see The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo to honor the commitments agreed to as a condition of having early access to the film. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.Sincerely,Andre CaracoExecutive Vice President, Motion Picture PublicitySony Pictures Entertainment The Hollywood Reporter