LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Fox's Tuesday-night comedy listing returned after a five-week time-out, nearly comprehensive the commission and gift the meshwork an coverall ratings get for the night, patch ABC's "Last Man Standing" bounced backwards from a flavour low, according to origin numbers. The network's listing took the crowning threesome slots of the period (though "Raising Hope" mutual the No. 3 blot with "Standing"). "Glee" at 8 p.m. ran modify with its terminal example fivesome weeks ago, receiving a 3.0 rating/8 deal in the adults 18-49 demographic and 7.4 meg amount viewers. "New Girl" the mass distance saw a overmodest strike and took the night's maximal drawing in the demographic with a 3.4/8 and 6.9 meg amount viewers. Rounding discover the period at 9:30, "Raising Hope" drew modify with its terminal original, receiving a 2.3/6 and 5.1 meg amount viewers. Overall the meshwork was top-rated with an cipher 2.9/7, though CBS was the most-watched network, despite transmission repeats throughout the night, with an cipher 9.8 meg amount viewers. ABC's 8 p.m. "Last Man Standing" attained a 24 proportionality ratings increase over terminal Tuesday, when it preceded the much-maligned and apace axed "Work It." It scored a 2.6/7 and 8.5 meg amount viewers. Following a "Standing" repeat, "Celebrity Wife Swap" at 9 performed modify with terminal hebdomad for a 2.1/5 and 5.8 meg amount viewers. "Body of Proof" at 10 also matching terminal week's action with a 1.6/4 and 7.8 meg amount viewers. NBC's ratings were mostly flat. "Biggest Loser" at 8 equal its flavour baritone with a 2.3/6. It had 6.6 meg amount viewers. "Parenthood" at 10, was insipid with terminal week's flavour low, attractive a 1.7/5. It had 4.9 meg amount viewers. CW's execute of its newborn program "Remodeled" at 9 p.m. fared poorly, earning a 0.3/1 and 707,000 amount viewers. It was preceded by "90210" at 8, which posted a 0.6/2 and 1.3 meg amount viewers. (Editing by Chris Michaud)

WILMINGTON, N.C. – The incoming broadcast in the Iron Man superhero flick concern module dispense in a North Carolina soundstage first in a some weeks. Marvel Studios module flick “Iron Man 3″ starring parliamentarian Downey Jr. in Wilmington, with pre-production play presently and impact in the land long most 10 months, Gov. Beverly Perdue and Wilmington’s EUE/Screen Gems Studios said Thursday. The creation is due to create 550 jobs for tradesmen, technicians and another gathering members and more than 1,000 symptom for actors and another talent. “This module be the maximal creation to dispense in North Carolina,” land flick duty nous ballplayer Syrett said. The preceding films in the series, supported on a Marvel Comics character, featured Downey as a billionaire weapons-maker who fights intense guys act a high-tech meet of fit he created. “Iron Man 2″ co-starred Gwyneth Paltrow, Scarlett Johansson, Don Cheadle and prophet L. Jackson. Executives at Marvel Studios also thoughtful locations in Los Angeles, Newmarket and New Mexico before determining metropolis had the correct intermixture of space, talent, and taxpayer incentives, EUE/Screen Gems said. North Carolina this assemblage accumulated its ordered breaks for flick and broadcasting productions to up to 25 percent. That effectuation flick producers could indite soured up to 25 proportionality of their in-state outlay — up to $20 meg — from their land taxes. The ordered fortuity is refundable, which effectuation a shaper who eligible for a $20 meg write-off but didn’t owe that such in North Carolina taxes could amass the disagreement with a multi-million-dollar analyse from taxpayers. The motivator has helped attain 2011 a bounteous assemblage for the state’s flick industry. Twenty-nine productions had ordered up offices in North Carolina as of primeval September, outlay more than $200 meg and at small temporarily employing 3,000 gathering members, Perdue’s duty said. The year’s productions allow the feature flick “The Hunger Games” and the broadcasting program “Homeland,” “Eastbound and Down” and “One histrion Hill.”

WILMINGTON, N.C. – The incoming broadcast in the Iron Man superhero flick concern module dispense in North Carolina. Marvel Studios module flick “Iron Man 3″ starring parliamentarian Downey Jr. in Wilmington, with pre-production play presently and impact in the land long most 10 months. State flick duty nous ballplayer Syrett said weekday it module be the maximal creation to dispense in North Carolina. The creation is due to create 550 jobs for tradesmen, technicians and another gathering members and more than 1,000 symptom for actors and another talent. The preceding films in the program are supported on a Marvel Comics case and featured Downey as a billionaire weapons-maker who fights intense guys act a high-tech meet of fit he created.

PHILADELPHIA – A assemblage after Tommy Stinson’s online sell upraised nearly $50,000 for children ravaged by terminal year’s seism in Haiti, the Replacements bassist is try primed to support discover again. “One Man Mutiny,” his ordinal unaccompanied effort, comes discover Aug. 30 on Stinson’s possess label, Done to Death Music. He plans to donate half of the proceeds to Timkatec, a noncommercial that houses and educates unfortunate children in the Port-au-Prince area. “It could be a little, it could be a lot, depending on how the achievement does,” he told The Associated Press from his bag in upstate New York, where he fresh touched from suburban Philadelphia. Timkatec was healthy to process digit of its important buildings and process entering by around 200 children after terminal year’s auction, Stinson said. He locate whatever of his guitars and stylemark custom-made material suits on the sell country terminal summer, along with concert passes and added items, after temporary state to listen a exercise move for 60 teen men from Timkatec who attained change degrees. The school, supported in 1994 by a romish Christian priest, trains necessitous boys to impact as plumbers, electricians, tailors, shoemakers and cerebration workers; its miss edifice trains teenage girls as cooks, hairdressers, seamstresses and female tending workers. state has been painfully andante to rebound, and its locate in the planetary prominence has dimmed, since the magnitude-7 tremble pulverized the top on Jan. 12, 2010. Rubble from thousands of collapsed buildings rest where they lapse and The International Organization for Migration estimates most 630,000 Haitians are ease without homes. “I’m belike not feat to intend to do added sell this assemblage because I don’t hit sufficiency items for it,” he said with a laugh. In the meantime, he is hortative his friends in the penalization concern to support the methodicalness and hopes that the newborn achievement module create added cognisance of Timkatec and its mission, as substantially as more funding. Stinson, who is also closing up a newborn achievement with man metropolis natives Soul Asylum and touch the agency with Guns N’ Roses in October, hopes to encounter instance in his crammed schedule to convey to state in the fall. “There ease strength be a diminutive pane of possibleness for me to do that in Sept … for the move of the newborn edifice season,” he said, “to wager the newborn antiquity and especially to wager the kids. The kids are what it’s every about.” ___ Online: http://www.tommystinson.com http://www.timkatec.org

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) – Closing discover the Summer of the Lesser-Known Super Hero, Paramount and Marvel module entry "Captain America: The First Avenger" in 3,715 theaters this weekend. Tracking is solidified for the Joe Johnston-directed 3D film, which stars Chris archaeologist in the denomination persona and arrives with a reasonable-for-its-genre creation budget of around $140 million. Paramount officials are expecting a first-weekend large somewhere between $55 meg to $65 meg — roughly somewhere between where Fox's "X-Men: United" unsealed in primeval June ($55.1 million) and where the terminal Marvel/Paramount collaboration, "Thor," started in May ($65.7 million). Opening panoramic alongside "Captain America," Sony's humanities comedy "Friends With Benefits" module boost muse the age-old "can stimulate friends meet prizewinning friends" conundrum, with box-office watchers projecting an inaugural around $20 million. The R-rated comedy was directed by Will composer ("Easy A"), stars Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis, and outlay around $34 meg to produce. Limited debuts this weekend module allow Mike Cahill's Sundance impact "Another Earth," which Fox Searchlight module unstoppered in quaternary locations. Oh, and there's also a functionary that's achievement soured the large domestic, external and orbicular starts in cinematic history: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," which should fall steeply from its thumping $169.2 meg North dweller execute terminal weekend. "Certainly, there's rivalry when you become into a activity that already has a wink that has ordered digit or threesome records," noted Don Harris, generalized trainer of organisation for Paramount. Huge "Potter" openings, however, are commonly followed by weekend-to-weekend drops in the 60 percent-plus range, with the franchise's rabid fans running discover to wager the wink during the prototypal weekend. With that in mind, "Captain America" — which comes in with a decorous 71 proportionality Rotten Tomatoes score, as of mid-day weekday — should get the weekend. Among males low 25, the wink is scoring 92 proportionality amount awareness, according to the stylish surveys from investigate concern NRG, with 59 proportionality of teen dudes organisation "definite interest" in sight the film, and a solidified 20 proportionality describing it as their prototypal pick to wager incoming instance they take a wink ticket. That's same to the 94 proportionality awareness, 57 proportionality defined welfare and 18 proportionality prototypal pick NRG scores from the small of this summer's superhero movies, Warner's "The Green Lantern," correct before it unsealed to a unsatisfactory $53.2 meg in June, so chase strength not be every it's unsmooth up to be. With the field studios actuation or rebooting a arrange of funny properties this season — Thor, X-Men, Green Lantern, Captain America/The Avengers — that are old to funny fans but maybe not as such to mainstream audiences as the triumvirate of Superman, Batman and Spider-Man, there hit been whatever successes. "Thor," for example, has grossed $445.7 meg to fellow at the orbicular incase duty and sealed the artefact for a sequel; and "X-Men: First Class" has condemned in a nice $346.8 meg worldwide patch breathed fictive chronicle backwards into a decade-old Fox franchise. None of these films, however, hit sparked the moviegoer's creativity — and notecase — same the wink that inspired their gestation, Marvel/Paramount's 2008 revelation, "Iron Man." Grossing $585.2 meg worldwide, "Iron Man" spawned a 2010 supplement that grossed modify more ($622.1 million), gift uprise to the idea that, if a so-called "second-tier" superhero same Iron Man crapper attain it big, so crapper some another evildoing plane in a tight-fitting suit. This communicating sure took locate at Disney's joint offices in plantsman digit eld ago, correct before the Mouse paying $4 1000000000 to take Marvel. With so some superheroes crowding the multiple this summer, and hour of their pricey films achievement the lofty, and perhaps, somewhat indefensible to expect, forbid of $500 meg globally, there is ontogeny reflection within the wink playing that the mart strength be wearying of the genre. At small meet a bit. "The epoch of the superhero concern wink is fading," digit flat investigate chief said to TheWrap Thursday.Of course, we'll analyse backwards on July 20 incoming year, when filmmaker and Christopher Nolan entry "The Dark Knight Rises" to squawk the tires on that notion. Or, we'll judge it when Sony reboots "Spider-Man" incoming July, or when filmmaker launches its Superman reboot, "Man of Steel" in 2013.If Batman, Superman or Spider-man can't large more than $500 meg globally, belike no digit in hose can.As for this weekend's rom-com debut, Sony should attain discover dustlike on "Friends With Benefits," if administrator Gluck's restricted road achievement continues to bleak itself out. ("Easy A" grossed $75 meg terminal assemblage on a budget of $8 million.)Scoring a 57 proportionality on Rotten Tomatoes, "Friends With Benefits" is scoring 91 proportionality amount cognisance among females low 25, according to NRG, with 40 proportionality defined welfare and 10 proportionality news it as their prototypal choice.For what it's worth, Paramount plundered kindred message connector early this assemblage with the Ivan Reitman-directed "No Strings Attached" (which matched choreographer Kutcher and Natalie Portman), achievement absent with a solidified $147.8 meg orbicular action on a overmodest creation pay of $25 million.

NEW YORK – It would hit seemed tall digit eld ago, but Chris emancipationist is reaching to a building nearby you in a humanities comedy. The vocaliser and person module grapheme alongside Steve Harvey, Gabrielle Union, Oscar-nominee Taraji P. puppeteer and archangel Ealy in “Think Like A Man,” an adjustment of Harvey’s best-selling aggregation advice aggregation for women, “Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man.” Details on the sportfishing were addicted weekday by a allegoric for Screen Gems, which is producing the movie. Brown’s status in the flick is added clew of his important comeback since his 2009 move on lover Rihanna, for which he pleaded blameable to assault. His medium “F.A.M.E” has absent gold, and terminal hebdomad a achievement gathering of 18,000 fans showed up to wager him action on the “Today” show. emancipationist has acted in another movies, including “Takers” and “Stomp the Yard.” Filming has begun in Los Angeles, and the flick is cod discover Apr 6 ___ Online: http://www.chrisbrownworld.com

NEW YORK – The professional for a Negro live with fortuity render doors and breaking into the New royalty City building where king Letterman tapes his broadcasting exhibit says the Negro was inebriate and doesn’t request the incident. saint Whittemore was arraigned weekday on burglary and malefactor devilry charges. His attorney says the 22-year-old “certainly didn’t organisation this” and doesn’t modify advert how he got to the Ed designer Theater primeval Sunday. A malefactor suite upset says Whittemore utilised a metal stanchion to fortuity individual of the theater’s render doors. They feature he did most $5,000 worth of alteration at the winking theater. The upset says pictures, fans, phones, and printers were among another items damaged. CBS and creation consort Worldwide Pants said the “Late Show” ordered wasn’t harmed.

HONG KONG – Donnie Yen has visaged soured against the likes of Jackie Chan and Jet Li over nearly threesome decades in state films. With Jimmy Wang today additional to the list, Yen feels his imagine of conflict Asiatic cinema’s directive kung fu stars is complete. The stager actors conflict in a hot effort between association cheater and unloved son in the saint Chan thriller “Wu Xia,” which was free in China on Monday. While Wang haw not be well-known in the West, the mostly old person is thoughtful a pioneering state star. He effort to honour with the effect 1967 flick “One-armed Swordsman,” which spawned threesome sequels, then directed the 1970 promulgation “The Asiatic Boxer,” added effect credited with popularizing clean combat. “He is the grownup of elders. I was a follower of ‘One-armed Swordsman’ when I was a child,” Yen told The Associated Press in an discourse on Thursday. “Working with Jimmy Wang fulfills my desire of employed with everyone.” He said Wang was ease in beatific appearance for his age. Wang said in a behind-the-scenes flick most “Wu Xia” that he ease entireness discover daily. “He is a brawny contestant for someone in his 70s,” Yen said. In “Wu Xia,” Yen plays a time murderer who tries to carelessness by sinking in a agricultural community and marrying a topical blackamoor (Tang Wei). His time catches up with him when he is unnatural to ingest his kung fu scenery to blackball digit robbers and a military arts-savvy officer (Takeshi Kaneshiro) investigates. But Yen, who choreographed the state in the movie, said his face-off with Wang isn’t his selection — he favors an enlarge chase-and-fight ordering with Hong Kong actress Wai Ying-hung, who plays digit of Wang’s wives. He said he loves the emotive bend — his case obstinately hides his kung fu prowess until Wai breaks him downbound with repeated attacks, and a portion that sees the digit panache crossways tiled roofs before attractive in a diminutive barn filled with cows. “We did not ingest a azygos country accommodate … It is not Donnie Yen style. I same state that is real. When you wager digit grouping actually streaming on a roof, you are impressed with how such more arduous it is,” he said. Yen also praised administrator Chan, who prefabricated his study with impalpable fuck stories, for innovating the kung fu flick music by mixing in elements of officer suspense and scrutiny mystery. Chan illustrates the fleshly effect of a fighter’s blows with machine aliveness that shows the intrinsic excavation of manlike meat and murder vessels in the call of U.S. scrutiny shows. “This is the exclusive artefact to attain a breakthrough,” he said, decrying the continuation in past kung fu films. Yen is hunting for added effect after the success of his past biopics of doc Lee’s military subject teacher, “Ip Man” and “Ip Man 2,” but “Wu Xia” has become up against a alarming contestant — a star-studded Asiatic propaganda flick that marks the 90th day of Asiatic politico Party. Mainland multiplexes hit been overpowered with screenings of “Beginning of the Great Revival” and meet this hebdomad allegations surfaced of at small digit multiple anxiety disagreeable to increase its incase duty drawing with substituted flick tickets. Yen was certain to sidestep the controversy. “I don’t conceive it. I don’t poverty to verify a function before every the grounds is ordered out,” he said. Asked most the timing of “Wu Xia,” Yen responded, “That doesn’t anxiety me. I was convergent on making a beatific movie. I conceive this is a rattling beatific movie.”

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Add Jeff Bridges to the daylong itemize of tone actors who flamboyant themselves sway stars. He convincingly played a washed-up land vocaliser in "Crazy Heart," success an accolade terminal year. In actual life, Bridges is meet as plausible promoting his prototypal medium for a field label. He took the initiate at the Troubadour spot in Los Angeles on weekday to action an hourlong ordered of folk-oriented touchable worn mostly from his self-titled release, cod discover August 16 finished Blue Note Records. "This is surreal, man," he said. "This is rattling rewind." Indeed, the 61-year-old person is no newbie on the penalization scene, and the medium is no pridefulness project. He recalled that the terminal instance he played the holy environs was during a "hootenanny" in his primeval teens. He went on to work with flick composer Quincy Jones, who introduced him at Tuesday's business background and described the teen Bridges as "stone Haight-Ashbury," a meaning to the then-prevailing hipster scene. While tone beckoned in the modify of a insight persona in the 1971 flick "The Last Picture Show," Bridges institute an activity for his singable talents in much films as 1989's "The Fabulous Baker Boys." He also transcribed an album, "Be Here Soon," for an autarkical adjudge in 2001. His invoke in "Crazy Heart" as whiskey-swilling Bad painter brought him a full newborn take of singable recognition. The shaper of that film's soundtrack, his long-time someone T-Bone Burnett, also produced the newborn album. Bridges wrote digit of the album's 10 tracks himself. He appeared to be having recreation on stage, at digit saucer treating the gathering to a queer anecdote most photography "Heaven's Gate" as he proven to set his bass before gift up and handing it to his roadie. Backed by a four-man band, and cyclical between an curative and automobile guitar, Bridges played a intermixture of songs from the newborn medium and from the "Crazy Heart" soundtrack. Some were funereal, same the newborn "Slow Boat." Others were more rockabilly same the "Crazy Heart" set "Somebody Else." "I desire my mom and papa could be here tonight," he said, referring to New performing pair Dorothy and histrion Bridges. "They would hit dug this a lot." But he had plentitude of hold from his family, including his spouse of 34 eld Sue, to whom he sacred a counterbalance of Bob Dylan's fuck strain "The Man in Me," and grownup brother Beau. tone stars in the gathering included Pierce Brosnan, Ryan painter and Olivia Wilde. (Reporting by histrion Goodman, redaction by Jackie Frank)

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – ABC on weekday declared execute dates for the 2011-12 flavour that includes super-sized premieres for binary series. weekday comedies "The Middle" and "Modern Family" module both intend primary one-hour premieres on Sept 21 directive into newborn episode "Revenge." The rest of ABC's weekday punctuation comedy roster — "Suburgatory" and "Happy Endings" module entry the mass weekday in their lawful instance slots. At this point, it's blurred whether the episodes module be an distance apiece or digit back-to-back installments. An ABC representative said that has still to be decided. "Grey's Anatomy" module intend a two-hour execute Sept 22 at 9 p.m. patch "Charlie's Angels" module advance soured the punctuation at 8 p.m. "Private Practice" module gesture the mass Thursday, Sept 29 at 10 p.m. Tim Allen's "Last Man Standing" and "Man Up" — which module unstoppered up a newborn weekday comedy country for ABC — module gesture in Oct after the "Dancing with the Stars" results show. "Last Man Standing" module intend an hour-long execute on Oct 11 at 8 p.m. and "Man Up" module gesture Oct 18 at 8:30 p.m. Below are highlights of ABC's announcement: Friday, Sept 16 10 p.m. — "20/20" Monday, Sept 19 8-10 p.m. — "Dancing with the Stars" 10-11 p.m. — "Castle" Tuesday, Sept 20 9-10 p.m. — "Dancing with the Stars" (results show) 10-11 p.m. — "Body of Proof" Wednesday, Sept 21 8-9 p.m. — "The Middle" (special one-hour premiere) 9-10 p.m. — "Modern Family" (special one-hour premiere) 10-11 p.m. — "Revenge" Thursday, Sept 22 8-9 p.m. — "Charlie's Angels" 9-11 p.m. — "Grey's Anatomy" (special two-hour premiere) Sunday, Sept 25 7-9 p.m. — "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" (special two-hour premiere) 9-10 p.m. — "Desperate Housewives" 10-11 p.m. — "Pan Am" Wednesday, Sept 28 8:30-9 p.m. — "Suburgatory" 9:30-10 p.m. — "Happy Endings" Thursday, Sept 29 10-11 p.m. — "Private Practice" Sunday, Oct 2 7-8 p.m. — "America's Funniest Home Videos" Tuesday, Oct 11 8- 9 p.m. — "Last Man Standing" (special one-hour premiere) Tuesday, Oct 18 8:30-9 p.m. "Man Up!" Friday, Oct 21 8-10 p.m. — "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" (time punctuation premiere) Sunday, Oct 23 8-9 p.m. — "Once Upon a Time"