'AbFab' returns Stateside with specials

"AbFab" is BackBack. Oft-revived BBC sitcom "Absolutely Fabulous" will return to stateside tellies via LGBT-focused cabler Logo, which will team up with BBC America to co-producer three new specials, tentatively set to premiere simultaneously on Logo and BBCA after their U.K. premiere dates. The first two specials will likely air around Christmastime on BBC proper, with U.S. dates to follow in Jan. Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley will reprise their roles as Edina Monsoon and Patsy Stone, as will the rest of the original cast of the show. Jon Plowman will return as exec producer. "We fully intend to party like it's 1991," said Saunders in a release. Logo obtained the rights to broadcast reruns of the program's previous five seasons earlier this year. Contact Sam Thielman at sam.thielman@variety.com

Check Out the NSFW International Trailer for 'Drive'

Excited about 'Drive' yet? If you're at all into hard-driving, kick-butt, straight-ahead car chase and fast-driving movies, this one's for you. It's kind of like 'The Transporter' on steroids. The plot is simple: Ryan Gosling plays a Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver at night; when he falls for his cute next door neighbor (Carey Mulligan) and does a heist as a favor for her ex-convict husband, he gets in way over his head. 'Drive,' which won Cannes' best director award for Nicolas Winding Refn, co-stars Albert Brooks, Oscar Isaacs, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks and Ron Perlman, and will open Sept. 16 through FilmDistrict. The French distributor, Le Pacte, has just released an international trailer similar to a U.S. trailer released not too long ago; this one, however, cuts out some scenes, adds sone snippets, and has some -- very brief -- nudity. Both trailers have spoilers if you read between the lines. So read the official synopsis below, then check out the trailer after the jump. Ryan Gosling stars as a Los Angeles wheelman for hire, stunt driving for movie productions by day and steering getaway vehicles for armed heists by night. Though a loner by nature, Driver can't help falling in love with his beautiful neighbor Irene (Carey Mulligan), a vulnerable young mother dragged into a dangerous underworld by the return of her ex-convict husband Standard (Oscar Isaac). After a heist intended to pay off Standard's protection money spins unpredictably out of control, Driver finds himself driving defense for the girl he loves, tailgated by a syndicate of deadly serious criminals (Albert Brooks and Ron Perlman). But when he realizes that the gangsters are after more than the bag of cash in his trunk -- that they're coming straight for Irene and her son -- Driver is forced to shift gears and go on offense. And just for good measure, here's a clip of a really heart-stopping scene when Gosling tries to evade the L.A.P.D. after a heist. Whew. Tip o' the hat to SlashFilm

New 'Woman In Black' Poster: Daniel Radcliffe Believes In Ghosts

Do you believe in ghosts? It's the question that the new UK quad for Daniel Radcliffe's "The Woman in Black" is posing. And, based on the terrified expression on Radcliffe's face in the poster, it seems like his character Arthur Kipps certainly does. This is the "Harry Potter" star's first film role post-The Boy Who Lived, and it's a nice sight to see only Radcliffe's name on the poster. While fans might be intrigued by the concept of the movie, I'd be hard-pressed to argue that the draw for "The Woman in Black" is anything but seeing what the 22-year-old actor is capable of. The recently-released trailer for "The Woman in Black" also flaunted how terrifying the movie is likely going to be. "The Woman in Black" follows Kipps, a lawyer and a father, as he visits a small English town to deal with the estate of the deceased Alice Drablow. But, as the trailer shows us, there's a bit more than meets the eye going on in the sleepy little countryside town, and it quickly becomes clear that Kipps has bitten off more than he can chew. From the creepy "blank-faced girls in matching dresses" chanting a terrifying nursery rhyme -- "What she wants is unknown, but she always comes back: the specter of darkness, The Woman in Black" -- to the chill-inducing appearance of the titular spectre, this is a movie that this Movies Blog writer is both anticipating and dreading at the same time. Fortunately, I have until "The Woman in Black" is released on February 3, 2012 to prepare myself. What do you think of the new UK quad for "The Woman in Black"? Tell us in the comments section below or on Twitter!

Bernd: Legacy is firm's zeal to win

Bernd Eichinger'The Name of the Rose'At an Italian restaurant in Munich one evening 12 years ago, I was having dinner with the late Bernd Eichinger, at that time executive director of Constantin Films, when I learned of this extraordinary man's great creative gifts and bold spirit to solve problems, wherever in the world he saw them.And to always have fun while doing so.Eichinger made sure of two things: that my champagne glass was full (Dom, I think) and that my mind was open to his mission of the evening: a full-scale assessment of weekly Variety, which he passionately believed was in need of a thorough review and an Eichingerian makeover."You are an international newspaper and I know there is valuable international news and information all through the paper, but you package it in a way that hides what is great about the newspaper!" asserted Eichinger.And he proceeded to analyze, from memory, every page of weekly Variety, every section, from the table of contents up front to the events page at the back and every page, feature and chart in between.By the time he was done, I didn't have much to say except, "You know my paper like you work there for a living."I could see clearly how Eichinger took on every challenge in his life in exactly the same way: with gusto and fierce determination to leave no status quo unchallenged, wherever he found it.When Eichinger passed away earlier this year, I recalled that encounter and thought about the tremendously vital European company that benefitted so greatly for so many years from his fearless attitude. I wondered: Would Constantin continue dreaming big and boldly move forward into new ventures?I'm sure the international film industry, for reasons both artistic and practical, has asked itself those same questions over the past several months since Eichinger's passing.When a longtime and trusted observer of the Euro film business recently noted to me that Constantin was charting an exciting course and that its future plans included the grand-scale 3D ambitions of "The Three Musketeers" and several other even more ambitious projects and initiatives, I was happy to follow his suggestion that I investigate for myself.I looked into the Constantin story and quickly learned that a key player of the international film industry was, in fact, moving forward briskly, guided bythe very sharp business sense of Martin Moszkowicz and very much with the dynamic "thinking big" spirit that was Eichinger's greatest contribution to the firm.This report and this Achievement in Intl. Film Honor for Martin Moszkowicz and the Constantin team isn't just a story of a company surviving the loss of a valuable family member and leader. It's also the story of how top companies successfully integrate innovative practices into their daily routines and build on the often intangible, but always essential characteristics of competition, vision and enterprise that are the crucial lasting legacy of their best and brightest.P.S.: We are in the process of making some of the changes to weekly Variety that Bernd suggested that night. Great ideas are never out of style! Contact Steven Gaydos at steven.gaydos@variety.com

Miramax Names New SVP Of Global Digital

The “new” Miramax keeps expanding in all sorts of interesting ways: SANTA MONICA, CA August 23, 2011 Miramax today announced that Beth Minehart has joined the company as SVP, Global Digital, reporting directly to Miramax CEO Mike Lang. Minehart will be responsible for all digital initiatives and sales across the company, including day-to-day management of miramax.com and the continued build-out of Miramaxs Facebook app (Miramax eXperience). She will also work closely with Eric Doctorow, EVP, and Joe Patrick, SVP, Sales, on all digital transaction and sales efforts. This is another important step for Miramax becoming a global company, and underscores our commitment to innovation in the digital market, said Lang. Beth is a well-known digital executive with a proven ability to think and execute outside traditional parameters, and we believe she will take Miramaxs early efforts with great platforms like Netflix, Hulu and Facebook to the next level. Prior to joining Miramax, Minehart served for more than 14 years in several senior roles at NBC Universal. Most recently, Minehart served as Executive Vice President, International New Media, where she led international strategy and licensing for all NBCU content across all digital platforms. Prior to that, as a Senior Vice President, Minehart also held roles with Corporate Business Development and International Sales Strategy. Minehart joined NBCU in 1997 as Vice President, Business Development, Universal Television & Networks Group. Minehart also served as Director, Worldwide Pay Television and Pay-Per-View at 20th Century Fox Film Corporation. Minehart received an MBA from Harvard University and received a BA from University of California, Los Angeles.

In Honor of 'Threequel' Being Removed From the Dictionary, 9 Great Threequels

Sad news today from the world of words: the Concise Oxford English Dictionary announced that its 12th edition would no longer include the word “threequel.” (Also gone, “cassette player”; weep for the ’80s.) In honor of the dearly departed “threequel” — defined as “the third film, book, event, etc. in a series; a second sequel,” it will still appear in the less concise Oxford Dictionary of English — Movieline has assembled a list of nine great third films. Click ahead to disagree with the list! The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 1966 (dir. Sergio Leone) Not necessarily a direct sequel to A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More, but The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is Sergio Leone’s final entry in his Dollars Trilogy with Clint Eastwood as the Man with No Name. Thank goodness Hollywood fears anything with a cowboy hat now, otherwise there’s a good chance this all-time classic would get the remake treatment — probably with Katy Perry sampling the famed Ennio Morricone theme song for the soundtrack. Rocky III, 1982 (dir. Sylvester Stallone) Thunderlips. Clubber Lang. The death of Mickey. “Eye of the Tiger.” That absurd training montage. “What’s your prediction for the fight?” “Pain.” Perhaps not the best threequel ever, but certainly the most fun. Star Wars: Episode IV — Return of the Jedi, 1983 (dir. Richard Marquand) Mock the Ewoks all you want, but the fact remains that Return of the Jedi is actually an incredibly watchable bit of sci-fi adventure fun — especially in its final act, when the battle for Luke’s soul is cross-cut with the Rebel uprising and Han and Leia’s attempts to bring the Death Star shields down. Note: this one may have aged so well because compared to the excruciating Star Wars prequels it’s like Citizen Kane. Also: Jabba the Hutt! Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 1989 (dir. Steven Spielberg) Featuring the last great Harrison Ford performance — or at least the last role where he seemed to be enjoying himself (sorry, but Dr. Richard Kimble was too determined to have fun) — The Last Crusade is geek nirvana. Indiana Jones and James Bond against Nazis in a race for the Holy Grail? You have chosen wisely. Die Hard With a Vengeance, 1995 (dir. John McTiernan) After Renny Harlin exploded the Die Hard formula with Die Hard 2: Die Harder (still can’t believe that’s the subtitle), original Die Hard director John McTiernan returned for a very worthy follow-up to his beloved first film. As the downtrodden and hungover John McClane in Die Hard With a Vengeance, Bruce Willis is perfection, and he gets fun, scenery-chewing support from Samuel L. Jackson (at the height of his screaming prowess) and Jeremy Irons (basically twirling an invisible mustache). The cat-and-mouse plot is a hoot, the New York City setting is a goldmine for action set pieces, and the “yippy ki-yay, motherfucker!” comes right when you want it to come. A winner. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2003 (dir. Peter Jackson) An obvious entry on any list of threequels, but in an era of blockbuster threequel busts (see Revenge of the Sith, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, and — for some — Transformers: Dark of the Moon), an outstanding achievement of finality. It could probably do with one or three less endings, but Jackson’s work here is undeniable. Also, when pushing for Andy Serkis to get an Oscar nomination for Rise of the Planet of the Apes, remember he was never better than as Gollum in King. Pusher III, 2005 (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn) From Movieline’s “7 Masterpieces of the ’00s You’ve Likely Never Seen” by S.T. VanAirsdale: “As the son of one of Denmark’s most legendary filmmakers, you probably could have foreseen at least a few of the rebellion issues plaguing Nicolas Winding Refn’s first two violent, haphazard entries in his Pusher trilogy. Yet when he reached the second film’s exhausting denouement in 2004, one could also sense Refn was exorcising whatever had held back his kinetic portraits of life in Copenhagen’s criminal underworld (as well as his grueling English-language debut Fear X). Closing the series in 2005 with Pusher III (cheerily subtitled I’m the Angel of Death), Refn checks back in with the earlier films’ drug baron Milo (Zlatko Buric). A junkie aging for the worse every day, and stuck with the added responsibility of organizing his spoiled daughter’s birthday party, Milo decides against his better judgment to sell a huge load of mistakenly acquired ecstasy. That requires the intersection of some of Copenhagen’s least savory gangsters, a troublesome epidemic of food poisoning, a few hundred consumed cigarettes and an unspeakably nasty final act that makes Refn’s 2009 prison fable Bronson look like an afterschool special on deliquency. It also redeems the first two Pusher films, which was no small feat. (Trailer very NSFW.)” The Bourne Ultimatum, 2007 (dir. Paul Greengrass) Real talk: the Matt Damon-led Bourne movies all blend together. For reference, Ultimatum is the one with Clive Owen the one with Karl Urban the one with Edgar Martinez, that kick-ass car chase through lower Manhattan and Bourne’s homecoming/final swan dive. Paul Greengrass kept things lean and mean in his last moments as franchise head coach, while Damon was at his brusque and brutal best. Jeremy Renner and Co. have large, military-issued boots to fill for The Bourne Legacy. Toy Story 3, 2010 (dir. Lee Unkrich) It’s kind of impossible to have a list of threequels without Toy Story 3. Beloved by critics (with the exception of Armond White), beloved by audiences, and beloved by Academy members, the third film in the near two-billion-grossing Pixar franchise dealt with the loss of innocence and growing into adulthood better than almost any live-action film release in the recent past. Translation: I cried. You did too.

Songwriter Nick Ashford Dies Had Throat Cancer

FIRST Released: August 22, 2011 9:13 PM EDTLAST Up-to-date: August 22, 2011 9:34 PM EDT NEW You are able to, N.Y. -- Nick Ashford, one-1 / 2 of the legendary Motown songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson, has died at 70. His longtime friend and former publicist Liz Rosenberg told The Connected Press that Ashford who together with wife Valerie Simpson authored a number of Motowns greatest hits died Monday inside a New You are able to City hospital. He'd been struggling with throat cancer coupled with gone through radiation treatment. One of the tunes Ashford & Simpson composed are Aint No Mountain Sufficient, 'Youre All I Have To Manage and Achieve Out And Touch Somebodys Hands. He's made it by his wife and 2 kids. Copyright 2011 by Connected Press. All privileges reserved.These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Songwriter Nick Ashford Dies; Had Throat Cancer

FIRST PUBLISHED: August 22, 2011 9:13 PM EDTLAST UPDATED: August 22, 2011 9:34 PM EDT NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Nick Ashford, one-half of the legendary Motown songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson, has died at age 70. His longtime friend and former publicist Liz Rosenberg told The Associated Press that Ashford who along with wife Valerie Simpson wrote some of Motowns biggest hits died Monday in a New York City hospital. He had been suffering from throat cancer and had undergone radiation treatment. Among the songs Ashford & Simpson penned are Aint No Mountain High Enough, 'Youre All I Need To Get By and Reach Out And Touch Somebodys Hand. He is survived by his wife and two daughters. Copyright 2011 by Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Murdochs face new hacking quiz

LONDON -- ''Devastating new evidence'' within the phone hacking and police corruption scandal including the Murdoch-possessed U.K. tabloid this news around the globe has emerged.The publication of two letters on Tuesday causes it to be ''almost certain'' that James Murdoch, News Corp.'s deputy COO, is going to be remembered by British pols to reply to questions over discrepancies between his version of occasions within the debate and individuals of professionals in the paper and it is writer, News Corp. U.K. subsidiary News Intl.Instructions written 4 years ago through the News from the World's disgraced royal correspondent, Clive Goodman, who offered a prison sentence for phone hacking in 2007, claims the practice was common and ''widely discussed'' at editorial conferences in the paper for now editor, Andy Coulson, banned further references into it.The letter, published through the British pols looking into phone hacking, also stated that Coulson agreed to let Goodman keep his job if he agreed to not implicate the paper in hacking when his situation was attempted. It mentioned that their own hacking was completed with ''the full understanding and support'' of other senior News around the globe journalists, whom he named. These names couldn't be released due to police research.If true, the accusations not just really humiliate the Murdochs, but additionally Coulson, arrested recently and who in The month of january ankled as director of communications for British pm, David Cameron, and Rebekah Brooks, the ex-News Intl. Boss and News around the globe editor, who had been also arrested in This summer. Both Coulson and Brooks have consistently refused any understanding of phone hacking in the tabloid.The facts furthermore raise fresh questions regarding the judgment of Cameron, who hired Coulson as his chief spin physician following assurances from him he understood nothing about phone hacking. In the letter Goodman stated: ''This practice was broadly talked about within the daily editorial conference, until explicit mention of the it had been banned through the editor.In another section, he stated that ''Tom Crone (this news Intl. lawyer) and also the editor guaranteed on many occasions which i could return to some job in the newspaper if I didn't implicate the paper or some of its staff during my minimization plea. I didn't, and that i expect the paper to recognition its promise in my experience.''The other letter, compiled by the British lawyer utilized by News Intl., Harbottle and Lewis, freely belittled evidence distributed by Rupert and James Murdoch finally month's grilling by British MPs. It stated it finds it ''hard to credit'' James Murdoch's repeated declare that News Intl. ''rested on information it had provided in their causes of thinking that Goodman would be a 'rogue reporter' which phone hacking wasn't rife in the tabloid.'' News Intl.'s look at the business's role was ''self-serving,'' it stated. Rupert Murdoch's declare that Harbottle and Lewis was employed ''to discover what the heck was going on'' was ''inaccurate and misleading.''The company added that Murdoch Senior might have been confused or wrong about its role. Harbottle and Lewis authored: ''There was simply no question from the firm being requested to supply News Intl. having a clean bill of health, so it could deploy years later in wholly different contexts for wholly different reasons. The firm wasn't being requested to supply some kind of 'good conduct certificate' which News Intl. could show to parliament. Nor was it receiving an over-all retainer, as Mr. Rupert Murdoch asserted it had been, 'to discover what the heck was going on'.''British Mega pixel Tom Watson, that has campaigned with respect to phone-hacking sufferers, stated the brand new evidence was ''devastating.'' The mind from the media choose committee, John Whittingdale, stated the brand new facts managed to get ''almost certain'' that James Murdoch could be remembered to parliament to reply to new questions. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Chris O'Dowd Finds The Sapphires

He'll star within the musical adaptationWe know Chris O'Dowd could be funny. As well as in recent work like the Crimson Petal and also the Whitened and Bridesmaids, he's demonstrated they have range beyond his comedy chops. Now he's dealing with something completely different, nabbing among the lead roles in Aussie musical adaptation The Sapphires. Inspired with a true story, the plot is occur 1968 and finds a woman band yanked from obscurity inside a remote Australian mission by an Irish talent scout (O'Dowd). Thinking they could be Australia's response to The Supremes, he flies these phones Vietnam to entertain the troops. O'Dowd will star alongside Deborah Postman, Jessica Mauboy, Shari Sebbens and Miranda Tapsell, who definitely are warbling because the performers. Not sure on whether what this means is Chris is going to be singing themself, but we are intrigued to understand. Or afraid. Select one. Wayne Blair is pointing the film, searching to start shooting this month both Here as well as in Vietnam.

CSI: NY To Address 9/11 Anniversary In Season Premiere

FIRST PUBLISHED: August 10, 2011 3:34 PM EDT NEW YORK, N.Y. -- CSI: NY will have a 9/11-related story this upcoming season, which will air just after the tenth anniversary of the attacks on America. Gary Sinises character, Mac Taylor, will get some answers related to his wife, whose remains were never recovered following the attacks, the New York Post reported. Macs wife, Claire, played by actress Jaime Ray Newman, will appear through flashbacks, according to the paper. The episode will also go back in time, looking at the actions of the CSI team during the horrific events of the day. While the show is shot in Los Angeles, they will film several scenes at the Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance, the paper reported. The episode will air on September 23 on CBS, as CSI: NYs season premiere. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

See Neil Patrick Harris, Kal Penn and John Cho in First Image From Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas

If the dog days of August — or maybe the once-again crumbling economy — have you down, here’s a bit of cheer to brighten the afternoon: a first look image of Neil Patrick Harris, Kal Penn and John Cho in the likely ridiculous A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas. Best title since Snakes on a Plane? Check. Photo of the three leads that make the film look like a stoner version of Babes in Toyland? Double check. Click through to see Christmas come early. If this still looks familiar, you might be a subscriber to EW; the magazine printed the image in its pages a couple of weeks back. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas arrives in theaters on Nov. 4. [via Yahoo!]

Buffy's Marti Noxon on Joining Glee, Why Brittany Is More "Evolved" Than Most

Marti Noxon, Heather Morris There are many reasons the Internet exploded when it was announced in June that Buffy the Vampire Slayer executive producer and fanboy favorite Marti Noxon had joined the writing staff of Glee: She has plenty of cult cred, thanks to her days working alongside Joss Whedon, but her resume is also littered with top dramas including Mad Men, Private Practice, Grey's Anatomy and Brothers & Sisters. "Geeks and musical nerds are all the same people," she says. "There were only so many places to hide in high school: One was the A/V club and the other was the drama club. In Glee, the two meet so beautifully." Glee adds 6 to writing staff We caught up with Noxon during Comic-Con, where she was promoting the upcoming remake of Fright Night, to talk about what she'll be doing on Glee - and how the Fox musical might allow her to deal with some unfinished Willow-Tara business: How did you come to join the writing staff of Glee? Marti Noxon: I had worked for Fox a lot back in the day, and actually [20th Century Fox Chairman] Dana Walden, who I like to call co-president of awesomeness, it was her idea. She suggested it to Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan and they were really great about it. Did she tell you they needed more people? Noxon: I think what she felt was that Ryan and Brad have a new show going on FX, American Horror Story, and it's pretty well-known that they, together with Ian, write everything. That's a lot. It's not like other shows. I worked on Mad Men and [creator-executive producer] Matthew Weiner puts his mark on every single script and rewrites them all, but they're only doing 13 episodes. On Glee, they're doing 24 or something! It's crazy. They realized they could use some help. I'm on as a consultant, which means I'm part-time, but they also hired a great writing staff, people I'm really excited about and am currently getting to know. Everything you knew about Glee's future is wrong: Producers clarify Ryan Murphy's comments How much of the show have you seen? Were you a fan? Noxon: Absolutely. I was more of a first-season person, only because I didn't get a chance to watch Season 2; I got super-busy. But I know that Season 1 I really dug. Some of the story lines were so out there, but I totally love that! I was just like, "This is just off the hook! It's bananas." We're having a lot of fun thinking about next season. The thing I did get to see recently was Glee: The 3D Concert Movie. It's so good. It's really charming and inspiring and they make some really smart choices, I can't wait for people to see it. And I can take my daughter to see it. She's 6-and-a-half, so I can't always let her watch the show! "Mommy, why is everybody kissing everybody?" Although she does have lesbian grandmas so she's ready for Glee. How will it work with you being a consulting producer? Noxon: Usually what it breaks down to is you spend more of your time helping shape story rather than writing scripts. One of the good things about consulting is that you leave the writers' room for a couple of days, things progress, you come back and you might have a fresher take. The thing that can happen in a TV room is you can get "teamthink," you can all go down a crazy path together. Sometimes I say working on a story in a writers' room is like saying the same word over and over and over again until it doesn't make sense anymore. Like, you say it until you don't know what you're saying. Are there any characters you're excited to help write stories for? Noxon: It's weird; everyone's a Brittany (Heather Morris) fan. The number Heather has in the Glee movie is just stupefying. She manages to be both incredibly wholesome and one of the sexiest people you've ever seen, which is an amazing thing to pull off. I would love to write some Brittany stuff. I wouldn't mind getting into the whole Santana-Brittany thing, especially because of Willow and Tara on Buffy. How so? Noxon: It stems from one of the things we had talked about doing with them on Buffy that we never did. It's so politically incorrect to make a character gay and then make them "un-gay" again. Like once you become gay, you've crossed over, or, you're not allowed to be a person who doesn't want to be defined by a label like that. You're not allowed to be a person who says, "I just love that person right now, and maybe I'll love something else at some point, so I don't really want to say if I'm gay or bi or straight or anything else. I just love this person." I feel like that's where Brittany is. Without overthinking it, she's very evolved. Glee's Darren Criss talks Broadway, "unicorn dust," and graduation Have you talked to any of the executive producers about exploring that further? Noxon: Yeah, it's a big area of discussion right now. "What is Brittany? What's Santana (Naya Rivera)?" But I also think they did a lot of stuff last season about Kurt (Chris Colfer), and there's a lot that's been said on the topic of coming out, so I think theirs may be a slow-burn story. What's the creative priority heading into Season 3? Noxon: I feel like if there's a mandate it's just about keeping it fun and keeping the characters true to themselves. Nothing revolutionary. Doing what Glee does best and doing it through the whole season. Some critics complained that the second season was erratic, and that sometimes one episode felt different from the next. Noxon: I don't mind that. I feel like that's my feeling to a degree about True Blood sometimes. But it's one of the reasons I love that show, because you go, "I did not see that coming. And I never would have!" Sometimes it can feel a little disorienting as a viewer, but I just love the element of surprise and that's what I loved about Glee's last season. "Yeah! Here's an entire episode where they're huffing at the dentist's!" It's also just always incredibly clever. The mission going forward is like that for any show: You're carrying on what worked from the season before, and looking to the first season to see what people liked about that... But you can't get too reactive. Buffy started as a high school show, but the characters graduated on to college and it went on for seven seasons. What's your take on the idea of characters graduating on Glee? Noxon: I think it's kind of inspired, actually. I do. It is risky, believe me, I understand that it's risky. On Buffy we had a hard time at certain point, I mean, we stopped voluntarily at Season 7. It was not something the network was clamoring for, but we got tapped out. And I think Glee is a franchise that could go on for a really long time. There's a lot of talented, wonderful actors out there. I think it's a risky move but I think it's awesome. And they have brought in new kids successfully, including Chord Overstreet [who won't return] and Darren Criss... Noxon: I loooove Darren. I'm a huge fan. He's magic. He's made of unicorn dust; he really is. I just get so happy whenever he is on the show. In the Glee movie, as much as I was enjoying it, I was like, "Where is he already? Bring the happy back!" Obviously, I'd love to write some stuff for him. So yes, they're all incredible, but as a show choice, graduating characters is a really interesting, really bold choice that could really work. I think Ryan is on to something. The third season of Glee premieres Tuesday, Sept. 20 at 8/7c on Fox.

Browse the First Pic of Hathaway As Catwoman as Catwoman in 'The Dark Dark night Rises'

Yesterday we've got our start looking at Superman. Before that, it had been Batman and Bane within an all-out brawl at City Hall. So we have our first picture of Hathaway As Catwoman as Selina Kyle (also known as Catwoman) in 'The Dark Dark night Increases.' We almost didn't remember that Catwoman being within this factor in the end the Bane updates recently, but despite the fact that we are still not necessarily sure what high-tech shades have related to felines, this really is nonetheless among the best teases we have become to date. Proceed and look for the look entirely to determine why: You heard right, people. She's riding the Batpod. Unless of course this really is destined to be among individuals tales where Selina Kyle and Bruce Wayne get frisky with one another and she or he requires a ride to visit get bagels and occasional each morning, something informs us she just stole Batman's wheels. That is awesome. Still can't believe we must hold back until This summer 20, 2012, to determine Hathaway take that baby for any spin, but something informs us this is not the final Catwoman teaser we'll receive. (Up-to-date) Just found two new images in the fine folks at JoBlo of the items might be an Hathaway As Catwoman stunt double driving round the Batpod. Awesome. Exactly what do everyone think about Catwoman's change? [via JoBlo] Photo thanks to Warner Bros.