Exclusive Video: Sons of Anarchy's Tommy Flanagan Wrestles with Fin on SVU

Tommy Flanagan As Sons of Anarchy's Sargeant-at-Arms Filip "Chibs" Telford, Tommy Flanagan may be used to finding themselves round the wrong side in the law as you're watching camera. But his latest role, Flanagan will need to reaction to NYPD Fin (Ice-T) and Amaro (Danny Pino). On Wednesday's episode of Law & Order: Special Sufferers Unit (10/9c, NBC), Flanagan plays Murphy, a sadistic Irish loan shark. "He ain't most likely probably the most enjoyable fellow," Flanagan states, "and apparently he likes to hurt people when they don't pay his money-back.Inch Have a look at photos of Law & Order: Special Sufferers Unit Go behind the curtain of Flanagan's appearance and search for the initial crook inside the captain's office:

Lilienfield, Meshel, and Nayor Casting CW Drama Aircraft pilots

Lilienfield, Meshel, and Nayor Casting CW Drama Aircraft pilots By Daniel Lehman Feb 13, 2012 Nancy Nayor Casting company directors happen to be hired for 2 more drama aircraft pilots for that CW, Back Stage confirmed. Production dates for aircraft pilots are TBA.Tracy Lilienfield and Shaun Meshel are casting the CW drama pilot "Joey Dakota," an intimate sci-fi musical in regards to a time-traveling documentary filmmaker who must try to save her rock star boyfriend from an untimely dying. In line with the effective Israeli half-hour series "Danny Hollywood," the pilot is compiled by Bert Royal ("Easy A"). Royal can also be executive creating with Mark Harmon, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum, and Martha Haight for CBS TV Galleries. Lilienfield and Meshel have just created a brand new casting partnership, and "Dakota" is going to be among the first projects for their new office. Lilienfield's casting credits range from the CBS comedies "$#*! My Father States" and "The Brand New Adventures of Old Christine," the The best spinner's comedy "My Boys," and NBC's "Will & Sophistication." Meshel cast the television series "Existence Unpredicted" and "The Cleanser,Inch in accessory for many television movies.Nancy Nayor will cast "Shelter," an hour or so-lengthy drama pilot set in a historic Colonial summer time resort, in which the staff must deal with their visitors while moving relationships, rivalries, and romances that belongs to them. "Shelter" is compiled by "One Tree Hill" creator and showrunner Mark Schwahn, who's executive creating together with J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk of Bad Robot.Nayor started her casting career Off-Broadway at Manhattan Theater Club in NY, after which gone to live in La, where she labored as senior v . p . of feature film casting for Universal Galleries. In 1997, she opened up her very own casting company, where she casts advertisements, TV aircraft pilots, and movies for example "Scream 4," "Drive Angry," "The Entire Nine Yards," and "Journey." Lilienfield, Meshel, and Nayor Casting CW Drama Aircraft pilots By Daniel Lehman Feb 13, 2012 Nancy Nayor Casting company directors happen to be hired for 2 more drama aircraft pilots for that CW, Back Stage confirmed. Production dates for aircraft pilots are TBA.Tracy Lilienfield and Shaun Meshel are casting the CW drama pilot "Joey Dakota," an intimate sci-fi musical in regards to a time-traveling documentary filmmaker who must try to save her rock star boyfriend from an untimely dying. In line with the effective Israeli half-hour series "Danny Hollywood," the pilot is compiled by Bert Royal ("Easy A"). Royal can also be executive creating with Mark Harmon, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum, and Martha Haight for CBS TV Galleries.Lilienfield and Meshel have just created a brand new casting partnership, and "Dakota" is going to be among the first projects for his or her new office. Lilienfield's casting credits range from the CBS comedies "$#*! My Father States" and "The Brand New Adventures of Old Christine," the The best spinner's comedy "My Boys," and NBC's "Will & Sophistication." Meshel cast the television series "Existence Unpredicted" and "The Cleanser,Inch additionally to a lot of television movies.Nancy Nayor will cast "Shelter," an hour or so-lengthy drama pilot set in a historic Colonial summer time resort, in which the staff must deal with their visitors while moving relationships, rivalries, and romances that belongs to them. "Shelter" is compiled by "One Tree Hill" creator and showrunner Mark Schwahn, who's executive creating together with J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk of Bad Robot.Nayor started her casting career Off-Broadway at Manhattan Theater Club in NY, after which gone to live in La, where she labored as senior v . p . of feature film casting for Universal Galleries. In 1997, she opened up her very own casting company, where she casts advertisements, TV aircraft pilots, and movies for example "Scream 4," "Drive Angry," "The Entire Nine Yards," and "Journey."

Norwegian fund produces shop in Berlin

One of the key figures behind the Norwegian South Film Fund, setup lately to purchase films from third world countries, turned up within the Berlinale Friday to tubthump for your org. The fund, known to as Sorfond, is with each other given with the Norwegian Film Institute and Oslo's Films Within the South Festival whose artistic director, Lasse Skagen, is at Berlin to speak with potential candidates and assist them to interact with Norwegian co-production partners, additionally to meeting similar funding orgs. Sorfond was launched in co-operation while using Norwegian Secretary of condition for Foreign Matters and Secretary of condition for Culture. There's an initial cat of NOK4 million ($692,000) to distribute this year, getting a high limit per project of $178,000. Each project needs to experience a Norwegian co-producer and 50% of financing in place before a charge card applicatoin could be produced. The deadline for programs is Wednesday. Skagen mentioned the concept for your fund showed up in this area from the conversation inside a dinner within the French embassy in Oslo with Haitian director Raoul Peck. He advised the Norwegians to follow along with together with the instance of other funds specific at under developed nations, like France's Fonds Sud Cinema. Skagen states the eye in gold gold coin is obvious inside the participation within the festival, which draws in films from third world countries. "We'd a pitching forum in October within the festival, combined with 260 programs, so there's likely to end up lots of fascination with this," he mentioned. The pitching forum aided put producers from third world countries together with their Norwegian options. Getting dedication within the Norwegian government to continue funding for five years, Skagen mentioned, "We are concentrating on this around the long-term basis, and then we will establish new systems and consult with different producers together with other funders." The aim of the grant is always to lead "to strengthening film just like a cultural expression, to market diversity and artistic integrity round the worldwide film scene, also to strengthening freedom of expression," according to a disagreement. It is also wanted the fund will boost links involving the Norwegian and worldwide film industries. Recommendations as well as the application can be found at internet.sorfond.com. Contact Leo Barraclough at leo.barraclough@variety.com

Janney Sits For Friday Night Dinner

Tony Shalhoub also at the tableSomewhere in the mid-Atlantic, on the deep ocean floor, there's a waste pile of comedy ideas that didn't quite make the transition from the UK and the US. The challenge of translating British comedy for American audiences is fraught with failure, with every Office countered by ten Couplings. But that doesn't stop networks from trying, and now Allison Janney and Tony Shalhoub are set for the pilot of Friday Night Dinner.The Channel 4 original has been a hit over here, featuring Tamsin Greig, Paul Ritter, Simon Bird, Tom Rosenthal and Mark Heap as the bickering Goodman family (and their creepy/weird dog-owning neighbour Jim) who spend every Friday night round the dinner table, which never quite goes to plan.Created by Robert Popper, the show was aired across the Pond on BBC America, and now NBC wants to give a US version a try, with Janney and Shalhoub taking over from Greig and Ritter as the parents. There's hope for this one, as Greg Daniels, one of the leading lights behind the network's take on The Office, is overseeing the pilot, which has Office regular director Ken Kwapis attached to direct. Daniels also has experience on the likes of The Simpsons and King Of The Hill.As of right now, it's just a pilot, but we're intrigued to see how the typically British-style humour can be converted. Thankfully, Popper is also involved, so you know it's in good hands this end. Still, we wonder if he's been in touch with Steven Moffat to hear how badly it can all end...

The Way I Spent My Summer time Vacation Poster

Mel Gibson returns... having a gun!Mel Gibson's follow-as much as The Beaver might be going right to DVDover within the U.S. underneath the new title of Obtain The Gringo, but right here in Blighty it will be striking movie theaters under its original title, The Way I Spent My Summer time Vacation.Compiled by Gibson themself, it informs the storyplot of Driver - no, not the Ryan Gosling one, this really is Mel's role - a united states criminal who pulls off a large job within the USof A before finding yourself south from the border and bumped up in jail.With the aid of a nine-year-old boy he befriends in jail, he sets about escaping . - in the looks of things, with the aid of a gun, some grenades, plus some scowly looks.Here is a poster for that film, and beneath that, a teaser trailer to provide you with a much better taste of the items just how I Spent My Summer time Vacation is.Summer time Vacation One Sheet How ISpent My Summer time Vacation has gone out on May 11.

NFL, NBC sorry for 'obscene gesture'

The NFL and NBC issued apologies late Sunday after a performer extended her middle finger on camera during the Super Bowl halftime show starring Madonna. M.I.A., a British singer who was performing alongside Madonna, flipped the bird on air just seconds after a digitized blurring occurred on screen. The performer also may have uttered an expletive on camera, according to various published reports, but it was not clearly heard during the telecast. The statements issued after the game hinted at some tension between NBC and NFL over who was more responsible for the mishap, with NBC acknowledging its screening technology didn't work fast enough--but also noting the network left the hiring of M.I.A. to the league. "The NFL hired the talent and produced the halftime show," the network said in a statement. "Our system was late to obscure the inappropriate gesture and we apologize to our viewers." An NBC spokesman explained that a system in place during the telecast attempted to blur the image but was late by two-third of a second, or 20 frames. He could not identify how many seconds of delay were in place during the broadcast. The spokesman could not confirm that there was any audible expletive from M.I.A. that was heard on camera. The NFL issued a statement of its own regretting the incident, but used a far more loaded adjective to describe the on-air gesture. "There was a failure in NBC's delay system. The obscene gesture in the performance was completely inappropriate, very disappointing, and we apologize to our fans," read the statement. "Obscene" is a far more dangerous word than "inappropriate" given it borrows from the term the FCC employs in its monitoring of language and imagery used on broadcast TV. The incident could mean NBC is headed for the kind of controversy CBS found itself in eight years ago as a result of the infamous "wardrobe malfunction" that occurred during the halftime show, when singer Janet Jackson's nipple was exposed on the air as she performed with Justin Timberlake. Sources suggested that the NFL didn't see any sign of M.I.A. making such a gesture during rehearsals preceding the Super Bowl. Contact Andrew Wallenstein at andrew.wallenstein@variety.com

Joe Carnahan talks Dying Wish reboot

On Monday we introduced the news the Grey's Joe Carnahan is at line to reboot seminal revenge flick Dying Wish. Carnahan has confirmed this news, and it has come to Twitter to stipulate his vision for that remake."Men. I am doing Dying Wish," starts Carnahan. "But this version is really a re-imagining from the book and occur current day La. The L.A. of Collateral... it's on buses, cabs, metro trains. I wish to show an unseen version of L.A. L.A. by walking. Prowling. Hunting. The huge avoid of downtown...""[Nicolas Winding Refn] did an extraordinary job shooting L.A." continues the director, in mention of the Drive. "It required on the different dimension. This is the key."He does not get into anymore detail about how exactly he'll tweak the plot or figures from the Charles Bronson starring original, but from that little synopsis, it may sound as if Carnahan intends to update the scuzzy despair from the original right into a more sophisticated setting.The initial movie sees Bronson play a surviving vigilante, who sets about cleaning the roads of NY after his wife is extremely killed. Not sure up to now on when Carnahan's remake is anticipated to spread out, but hopefully we ought to possess some casting whispers for you personally soon...