Tom Cruise Talks Top Gun Follow-up

First Launched: December 20, 2011 11:07 AM EST Credit: Getty Premium La, Calif. -- Caption Tom Cruise attends the Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol within the Ziegfeld Theatre in NY City on December 19, 2011Will Maverick and Iceman be one anothers wingmen once again round the silver screen? According to Tom Cruise, his occasions of fighting MiGs is most likely not over! Access Hollywood taken up while using star within the NY premiere of Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol on Monday evening, where he revealed the chatter of a follow-up for the 1986 blockbuster isn't being removed. You understand, Tony which i and Jerry, we i i never thought relating to this. We i i never thought we are in a position to, Tom mentioned, mentioning to Top Gun director Tony Scott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer. However love coping with people males and weve been exploring tales, the actor ongoing. Arrived at enter people planes on top Gun. That might be fun. Once we could figure that out, thatll be fun. And just how about 1996s Jerry Maquire, which in fact had audiences within the customers hands from the hands at hello? We must talk to [director] Cameron [Crowe] relating to this, Tom added. Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, that's already playing in IMAX and selected theaters, opens wide on Wednesday. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Corporation. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore to Reunite at SAGs

Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore Dick Van Dyke will reunite with his former co-star and TV wife, Mary Tyler Moore, at the SAG Awards, where he'll present her with the guild's 48th Life Achievement Award, executive producer Jeff Margolis announced Wednesday.Modern Family dominates SAG nominationsThe 86-year-old Van Dyke and Moore, 74, played Rob and Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-66) before she went on to star in The Mary Tyler Moore Show.Moore, who earlier this year appeared on Hot in Cleveland, has seven Emmys and Tony. Past recipients of SAG's Life Achievement Award include Betty White, Clint Eastwood and Elizabeth Taylor.Mary Tyler Moore to receive SAG Lifetime Achievement AwardThe 18th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be broadcast live Sunday, Jan. 29 at 8/7c on TNT and TBS.

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Donald Trump announced that he is backing out of moderating a Republican debate in Iowa on Dec. 27.our editor recommendsDonald Trump Scolds Michele Bachmann as Debate Implodes, Teases Return to Presidential RaceDonald Trump's GOP Debate: Rick Perry Becomes Fourth Candidate Who Won't Participate Why? Because the billionaire says he may still run. "It is very important to me that the right Republican candidate be chosen to defeat the failed and very destructive Obama Administration, but if that Republican, in my opinion, is not the right candidate, I am not willing to give up my right to run as an Independent candidate," Trump said in his statement. "Therefore, so that there is no conflict of interest within the Republican Party, I have decided not to be the moderator of the Newsmax debate." PHOTOS: 10 Hollywood Players That Will Make a Difference in the 2012 Elections Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum were the only Republican candidates who had agreed to appear at the Dec. 27 debate moderated by Trump. After the announcement came that Trump would be moderating the Dec. 27, some of the candidates, including Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman, expressed their belief that the debate was just for spectacle and refused to attend. "This isn't about ratings for Donald Trump; this is about jobs for the American people," Huntsman told CNBC when he announced he would not participate. Several prominent Republicans have reportedly urged candidates to skip the event. They predicted it would be a media circus and a distraction from important issues. PHOTOS: The Movies and Stars Dems vs. GOPers Love (and Love to Hate) On Tuesday morning, The Hollywood Reporter spoke with Trump, who admitted that he was wavering on his decision to moderate the debate. "The problem is the Republicans are afraid that if I run as an independent candidate, they don't want to have a debate and then have me announce that I'm running as an independent candidate," Trump told THR. Trump also told THR that he is still considering a run for president as an independent candidate. He told THR that he wouldn't make any announcements until after the finale of The Celebrity Apprentice. The new season premeires on Sunday, Feb. 12 and the finale airs May 20. PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Box Office Politics: The Movies and Stars Dems vs. GOPers Love (and Love to Hate) Related Topics Donald Trump Politics

Mindy McCready Claims She Took Son To Save Him From Abusive Guardian

First Published: December 10, 2011 4:01 PM EST Credit: Getty Images LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Caption Mindy McCready is spotted at the World Series of Poker at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on June 8, 2008Following the recent dramatic turn of events for Mindy McCready, the country singer has spoken out about what she claims really happened last week when authorities reported the singer and her 5-year-old son, Zander were missing. Im not a kidnapper, Im not an unfit mother, Im not a drug addict, Im not an alcoholic Im none of these things that have been said about me, McCready told Andrea Canning in an interview on Fridays 20/20. The singer also claimed she and the boy were sitting on a couch when U.S. Marshals entered the Arkansas home of her boyfriend and not in a closet as initially reported by law enforcement. [Zander] was screaming, Please dont touch me, please dont touch me, please dont touch my mommy. Leave me alone. I wanna be with my mommy, she said. McCready claimed officers entered the home in SWAT fashion, wearing riot gear. Were guns drawn? Canning asked. Yes, assault rifles, McCready answered. Zander saw all of it. As for what drove the embattled star currently six months pregnant with twins to take her son from her mother Gayle Inges custody, McCready said she was fed up with the court system and was willing to risk her freedom for the sake of her son. I have tried to comply, I have tried to follow the rules of the court, I have tried to be heard through the system. I did what the system told me to do in overabundance. I did it for four years, she said. And after four years do you know what I got? Nothing. I didnt even get unsupervised visitation. I would risk anything my life, my freedom I would risk for my child, she added. When asked if she knowingly broke the law, McCready replied, No, I do not at this moment and will not ever think that me taking my own child that I carried for nine months, that I gave birth to in the hospital by myself would ever be breaking the law and what I did was to protect my child. And theres not a person in the world thats ever gonna tell me that that is wrong. The singer went on to claim that Zander is miserable in the care of her mother, who has legal custody of the boy. He says that nana thats what he calls my mom is so mean, that her heart is black, McCready said, beginning to cry. And that shes so mean, she doesnt know how to be nice anymore. And shes not alone in her fears. In a signed affidavit obtained by 20/20, Inges mother (McCreadys grandmother) reportedly swore she had witnessed Zander being subjected to harsh discipline at the hand of Inge and that she feared that Zander would be physically harmed permanently. There are scars on Zanders back, McCready alleged. There are scars on his bottom and his legs from [a wooden] spoon. Inge denied the allegations, telling 20/20, I have been Zanders guardian for four-and-a-half years. There has been all kinds of scrutiny. He has never been abused in our care. The singer said that despite the drama of the last few weeks, she recently received good news regarding Zanders future. Oh gosh, I wish I could tell you, but everything is sealed, she told Canning, when asked what went down in a recent hearing before an Arkansas judge. Ill put it this way: Zander is in Arkansas and thats where hes going to stay for the time being. Youve had a rocky road to get to this point where you are right now. How can anyone trust you that you will continue to be a good mother and stay on this path that you are on? Canning asked. I have vigorously gone out and tried to learn from my mistakes and tried to better myself in every way possible, McCready said. Theres nobody that wants to be better at being me than me. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Executives at OWN think they may have found a way to salvage Oprah Winfrey's struggling network: By catering more to an African-American audience. That may help ratings, but it would mean a dramatic shift, and one that could put the channel at odds with Winfrey's own brand.our editor recommendsSuze Orman's OWN Series Gets a Premiere DateDiscovery Communications CEO David Zaslav Urges Patience For OWN LaunchAnne Sweeney Tops THR's 2011 Women in Entertainment Power 100 ListGayle King Addresses Oprah Winfrey's Letter to Wendy Williams: Not Real PHOTOS: Hollywood's Top Earners According to OWN president Erik Logan and Discovery Communications CEO David Zaslav, the silver lining in an otherwise bleak performance record for the network since its launch last January is that it's performing particularly well among its African-Americans audience members-especially with a reality show called Sweetie Pies that premiered in October. "Anytime you have a program that pops like Sweetie Pies did, you start looking at what drove it," Logan tells Adweek. "And we saw that the African-American audience really had a connection with that show. . . . We're going to look at ways to nurture and grow that." OWN has an average prime-time viewership of around 216,000 people, but Sweetie Pies enjoys an average audience of around 418,000, making it the highest rated show on the network by far. VIDEO: The 5 Best Clips From 'The Oprah Winfrey Show 'According to Logan, OWN executives will be taking the success of Sweetie Pies in that market into consideration when making future programming decisions, as well as trying to pitch OWN's success with African Americans to new advertisers. "We now have a new opportunity to tell the story to different advertisers that didn't think about buying OWN if you're trying to market your clients in an African-American marketplace," Logan said. "Our ad sales team now has the ability to open up those conversations." Discovery Communications launched OWN last January to much fanfare, but the network has been flagging since. In the face of dismal ratings, OWN ousted CEO Christina Norman, a veteran of MTV, in May, and installed Winfrey in her place in July. Discovery has also pumped millions into the network-around $254 million as of September-using that money to fund big-budget shows like Dr. Oz, with Oprah Winfrey Show alumnus Mehmet Oz, and Rosie O'Donnell's The Rosie Show. PHOTOS: Oprah Through the Years If indeed OWN does begin programming around the relative success of Sweetie Pies and catering to the African-American audience more specifically, it would be a dramatic departure from the formula for Winfrey's success, which she built with a wide, diverse fan base. "Oprah is a brand that goes far beyond the African-American market" said Tuna Amobi, senior media and entertainment analyst in Standard & Poor's U.S. Equity Research Services. "I don't know that it would be a good thing for OWN to so narrowly define its target." As he pointed out, the biggest potential pitfall for OWN would be that its advertising base could shrink. "The advertisers they would attract are different," he said. "It will be a narrower base." OWN's Logan insists the network is not embarking on a large-scale refocusing. "We're not going to sell out and just chase one demographic or segment," he said. "We're going to nurture the success we had with Sweetie Pies. . . . [But] it is our job to strike a balance. The Oprah brand is not niche. The Oprah brand is very broad. How we translate that to the screen is the challenge we have." PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Oscar Show Moments Related Topics Oprah Winfrey Discovery Communications

NFL's new TV deals worth billions yearly

CBS, Fox and NBC will probably be needing to pay much more for your Nfl under prospective deal renewal and possess to learn to purchase this. The Nfl is poised to produce off another explosion inside the sports TV rights boom, closing in on contract extensions with CBS, Fox and NBC that by themselves would generate greater than $3 billion in annual revenue from 2014-21. As Sports Business Daily first reported, NBC, CBS and Fox are poised to resume their current rights handles payment increases more than 60% -- only slightly less percentage-wise in comparison to massive "Monday Evening Football" extension the Nfl and ESPN signed in September. ESPN went from $1.1 billion to $1.9 billion yearly if the restored its Nfl deal. A comment in the new broadcaster deals is predicted later on this month or early next season. Network sources did not browse the deals, but speaking within the UBS Global Media and Communications summit in NY today, CBS Corp. Boss Leslie Moonves alluded on their behalf. "The price of poker is booming,Inch Moonves mentioned, "(but) a poor football game outrates most programming." Due to the improved requirement for live programming inside the Digital video recorder age, the charge increases aren't surprising, though they really are daunting. Fox (whose current Nfl package is regarded as the pricey, at $720 million yearly through 2013), CBS ($620 million) and NBC ($603 million) will all approach or shoot past the $1 billion-per-year mark inside their next deals. "It'll be tough for your broadcast systems to produce this lucrative," SNL Kagan senior analyst Deana Myers told Variety. "In the good year, it's basically break-even or unprofitable." Nevertheless the systems have little choice, because nothing can replicate everyone else figures the Nfl produces. Even on broadcast leaders CBS and Fox, Nfl viewership surpasses the large the majority of their shows. Too for NBC, there's no contest: "Sunday Evening Football" is regularly the Peacock's only program besides "WorkInch inside the primetime top 30. The Nfl required to safeguard against labor strife this summer season to acquire itself back round the playing area, but permanently reason. If you mix the arrival broadcast network handles people of ESPN and DirecTV Sunday Ticket, the league earns additional than $6 billion in TV revenue from 2014. Now, the systems should try to learn how you can pay it. "By using this large from the rise without getting that large of the rise in advertising, (the systems) are likely gonna need to have a look at stations for just about any greater cut of retrans costs," Myers mentioned. Because the expectation is clients could eventually absorb the cost in the rights increases, Myers noted the growing chance of pushback in the systems. "More often than not there's talk on sides," Myers mentioned, "in regards to the network wanting more earnings to pay for more programming, as well as the operator side saying, 'We shouldn't purchase this.' Especially if you are a over-the-air network, people will get that totally free once they want. ... In my opinion there's apt to be debate and turmoil surrounding license costs and retrans costs." That's before adding a completely new Thursday-evening package of eight games, the chance of expansion around the the spanish language language-language nets or even the chance that later on, how big the Nfl regular season will expand from 16 to 18 games. Myers signifies there is a place where the sports rights rocket ship will plateau. "In my opinion there should be considered a restriction,Inch she mentioned. "You can't get increases every year which are hooking up a lot more than inflation. You've had a troubled economy and several pushback from comsumers." Contact Jon Weisman at jon.weisman@variety.com

Heyman will get Film Showman recognition

Hollywood publicists have drawn on David Heyman, producer of Warner Bros.' Harry Potter films, to get their Film Showman of the season award. The kudo will be provided in the 49th annual Publicists Honours Lunch to become held in the Beverly Hilton Hotel on February. 24. The publicists, repped with the Intl. Cinematographers Guild, made the announcement Tuesday through ICG leader Steven Poster and Henri Bollinger, honours committee chairman. Heyman's creating Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity," starring Robert Downey Junior., and "The Curious Incident from the Dog within the Evening-Time," to become scripted and directed by Steve Kloves. John Lasseter won the recognition this past year. Other recent those who win include James Cameron, Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, Judd Apatow and Amy Pascal with Michael Lynton. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com