Rihanna Forced To Cancel For A 2nd Time In Sweden

First Published: November 3, 2011 9:04 AM EDT Credit: Getty Premium STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Caption Rihanna performs on day 2 of the V Festival at Hylands Park in Chelmsford, England on August 21, 2011 Organizers say Rihanna has been forced to cancel a show in Sweden due to exhaustion for a second time this week. Live Nation spokesman Kristofer Akesson said the singer felt ill ahead of her concert in Stockholm on Wednesday night and that she decided in consultation with a doctor to cancel the show about an hour before she was to go on stage. Akesson says Rihanna is exhausted and doesnt feel well, but could not give more details. The singer called off a concert in Malmo in southern Sweden on Monday, but was able to perform the following night in Stockholm. Organizers are trying to arrange new dates for the shows. Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

RZA joins 'Django Unchained' cast

RZAQuentin Tarantino is reaching to a familiar face for any part in "Django Unchained," tapping his "Kill Bill" composer RZA for any supporting role within the Weinstein Company's spaghetti Western. RZA will have Thaddeus, a violent slave focusing on a Mississippi plantation. Furthermore, "Frozen River" star Misty Upham continues to be cast like a buying and selling publish-bar owner named Minnie. RZA obtained both "Kill Bill: Volume 1" and "Kill Bill: Volume 2" for Tarantino, who's showing RZA's directorial debut "The Guy Using the Iron Fists," which RZA co-authored with Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" star Eli Roth. RZA stars within the Universal pic alongside Russell Crowe, in addition to Tarantino alums Pam Grier and Lucy Liu. Best referred to as p facto leader from the Wu-Tang Clan, RZA has spent the final many years building his feature resume and studying top-tier company directors, with looks in Ridley Scott's "American Gangster," Judd Apatow's "Funny People," Todd Phillips' "DeadlineInch and Paul Haggis' "The Following 72 Hours.Inch Thesp, who lately wrapped production on Paramount's "G.I. Joe 2," will quickly be observed in "A Really Harold and Kumar three dimensional Christmas." RZA will even join David Duchovny around the approaching season of Showtime's "Californication." RZA is repped by ICM and attorney Joe Carlone, while Upham's deal was brokered by Blaine Johnston and Kevin McGinley of Rogues Gallery Management. Contact Shaun Sneider at shaun.sneider@variety.com

Talkback: Who Has Been Bill Murray's Best Co-Star?

Yesterday it was announced that Bill Murray had signed on to star in Roman Coppola’s upcoming film, A Glimpse Into the Mind of Charles Swan III alongside — drum roll please — Charlie Sheen. In honor of this out-of-left-field pairing, let’s recall some of Murray’s best onscreen partners in film and consider who has been the best. It’s hard to even ponder the best without considering his most frequent collaborator and co-star in the ’80s, Harold Ramis. Before the pair’s notorious falling out, the Chicago-raised comedic actors appeared alongside each other in Stripes, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters 2 and Groundhog Day. Ramis also directed the Murray vehicle Caddyshack and co-wroteMeatballs. Although no one remembers Murray and Ramis for their groundbreaking scenes shared or crackling chemistry, Ramis deserves mention as a formidable co-star who could match Murray in wit and dryness if not prickly charisma. Then there are the co-stars that played pupil to Murray’s offbeat professor like Chris Makepeace, who was taught some crucial camp social lessons by Murray’s Meatballs counselor and Jason Schwartzman, whose peculiar private school student was taken under the wing of Murray’s lonely tycoon in Rushmore. Both actors lured multiple dimensions and a caring quality from Murray, who more often than not has lapsed into the role of incorrigible grump (Groundhog Day and Scrooged) or staple smart aleck (Ghostbusters) during his career. Richard Dreyfuss turned that pupil-professor relationship on its ear though, when in 1991’s What About Bob?, he played the angry therapist and mentor to Murray’s obsessive-compulsive patient with stalker tendencies. Although the movie was only a modest box office success, Murray’s role as an upbeat optimist — even in the face of his many phobias — was a welcome change. But perhaps most audience members would credit Scarlett Johansson as Murray’s best co-star for helping to coax out his most gentle, honest performance ever in Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation. As an aging actor who forges an unlikely bond with an unhappily married twentysomething (Johansson), Murray allowed himself to be completely vulnerable, finally trading wisecracks for subtle emotion, thoughtfulness and his first Oscar nomination. Which co-star do you think has been Murray’s best? Maybe you consider Johnny Depp (for Ed Wood), Robert Duvall (for Get Low) or Uma Thurman (in Mad Dog and Glory) to be the finest. Either way, we’d love to hear your opinion below.

Berlinale unspools Panahi film

"This Isn't a movieInchGermany -- The Berlin Film Festival continues its support of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who's facing six years imprisonment following a Tehran appeals court upheld the sentence earlier this year. Inside a further show of solidarity with Panahi along with other jailed filmmakers, the Berlinale is joining the German Film Academy and Berlin public radio station Radioeins to recognition Panahi having a screening of his latest film, "This Isn't a movie,Inch on November. 9 in the KulturBrauerei in Berlin as "a kind of public protest and recognition for that courage of those Iranian filmmakers who continue their work despite constant danger." Co-directed by Mojtaba Mirtahmasb -- who had been arrested in September -- the film shows each day within the existence of Panahi because he waits for several weeks under house arrest for that results of his appeal, eating breakfast, contacting his lawyer, talking using the building's maintenance guy as well as enacting roles of the planned film he continues to be prohibited from making. "'This Isn't a Film' may be the defiance of the director who cannot desist from making films and is definitely the atrociousness to be banned from his profession with no self-pity whatsoever," the Berlinale stated. "Convicting artists and banning them using their professions violates human privileges, freedom of opinion and expression within the arts," added Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick. "We dramatically condemn such infringements and wish to demonstrate our solidarity with this particular screening." In September, Mirtahmasb and fellow Iranian filmmakers and stars Katayoon Shahabi, Hadi Afarideh, Naser Safarian, Shahnam Bazdar and Mohsen Shahrnazdar were also arrested included in the Tehran government's draconian attack on experts from the Islamic regime. In December 2010 Panahi and fellow director Mohammad Rasoulof were billed with distributing "propaganda from the system," and sentenced to 6 years imprisonment and banned from making films and travelling for the following two decades. Only at that year's Berlinale the fest expressed its support, calling focus on the plight of Panahi, along with other Iranian filmmakers with numerous initiatives. Additionally, it asked Panahi for everyone around the Berlinale's worldwide jury -- something the director was not able to complete because of his arrest. Moved by his plight, the German Film Academy has released the project "Filmmakers imprisonmentInch to aid politically persecuted filmmakers. Contact Erectile dysfunction Meza at staff@variety.com

Chinglish

Comedy Chinglish explores an American entrepreneur in China who feels lost without his native tongue.A presentation by Jeffrey Richards; Jerry Frankel, Jay & Cindy Gutterman/Cathy Chernoff, Heni Koenigsberg/Lily Fan, Joseph & Matthew Deitch, Dasha Epstein, Ronald & Marc Frankel, Barry & Carole Kaye, Mary Lu Roffe; the Broadway Consortium, Ken Davenport, Filerman Bensinger, Herbert Goldsmith, Jam Theatricals, Olympus Theatricals, Playful Prods., David & Barbara Stoller, Roy Gottlieb, Mary Casey and Hunter Arnold, in association with the Goodman Theater, of a play in two acts by David Henry Hwang. Directed by Leigh Silverman.Daniel Cavanaugh - Gary Wilmes Peter Timms - Stephen Pucci Minister Cai Guoliang - Larry Lei Zhang Xi Yan - Jennifer Lim Miss Quian, Prosecutor Li - Angela Lin Miss Zhao - Christine Lin Bing, Judge Xu Geming - Johnny WuDavid Henry Hwang puts a happy face on "Chinglish," his new play about a naive American entrepreneur who crashes head-first into language and cultural barriers when he tries to do business in China. But behind its cheerful facade, this well-made comedy takes a poignant view of the profound isolation and terrible vulnerability of people who are lost without their native language. Like the delicacy of Hwang's writing, the subtlety of that point tends to get lost in the broad comic spirit of this Broadway show -- which suggests a more intimate setting for any future productions. Director Leigh Silverman, who was also at the helm when show opened to kudos at the Goodman, takes every step -- from setting a brisk performance pace for the excellent cast to staging scenes along space-filling horizontal lines -- to assert the play's unpretentious charms. David Korins' witty scenic design, in particular, creates a cozy perspective for each of the multiple scenes set in the provincial Chinese city of Guiyang where a Cleveland businessman has gone to drum up trade for his sign company back home. Revolving setpieces (depicting hotel rooms, restaurants, lecture halls and the imposing offices of the town's cultural ministers) glide in on tracks from both sides of the stage and link up in the middle like the rooms of a reconstructed dollhouse. Daniel Cavanaugh (Mr. All-American Nice Guy, in Gary Wilmes' amiable perf) is pushing a product the Chinese can really use -- signage with English translations that don't make people double up with laughter. Much hilarity is made of public notices like "Fuck the Certain Price of Goods" (for "Dry Goods Pricing Department"), the unfortunate literary efforts of Chinese translators like the hapless specimen played so amusingly here by Angela Lin. With the help of Peter Timms (played with great comic verve by Stephen Pucci), a seedy-looking expat Englishman who speaks impeccable Mandarin and serves as his translator and cultural guide, Daniel is awarded the contract to supply the signage for a new Cultural Center. But after a series of hilarious meetings with the Minister of Culture (a bureaucrat to the bone, in Larry Lei Zhang's perf) in which everyone talks at cross-purposes and no one understands what anyone else is saying (unless they can read the droll supertitles above their heads), the precious contract is withdrawn. Suspicion for the double-cross falls on Xi Yan, the gorgeous but treacherous Vice Minister played with ferocious comic energy by the enchanting Jennifer Lim. But as Daniel comes to (mis)understand, from pillow-talk exchanges with this delightful creature, Chinese business practices are no less corrupt than those conducted in the States. They're just a whole lot funnier in the convoluted argot of "Chinglish." Looking back on his education-by-fire, Daniel comes up with the sobering moral that individuals (and perhaps nations) might never be able to learn the language and bridge the vast social divide between cultures. "You can see that we don't really understand each other too well," he says, a little wistfully. But at least he tried.Sets, David Korins; costumes, Anita Yavich; lighting, Brian MacDevitt; sound, Darron L. West; projections, Jeff Sugg and Shawn Duan; cultural advisers, Joanna C. Lee and Ken Smith; Mandarin Chinese translations, Candace Chong; production stage manager, Stephen M. Kaus. Opened Oct. 27, 2011. Reviewed Oct. 26. Running time: 2 HOURS. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

H&M Selling 'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo'-Inspired Clothing

Because dressing like your favorite fictional characters isn't just for Halloween, H&M is set to unveil a new line of threads inspired by Lisbeth Salander -- better known as the girl from 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.' In anticipation of the David Fincher-directed adaptation of Steig Larsson's worldwide best seller, the Swedish clothing retailer has paired with 'Dragon Tattoo' costumer designer Trish Summerville to produce the quintessential Lisbeth look. Bleached eyebrows, tattoos and piercings not included. "We took her basic pieces that we used throughout the film and did a little more fashionable version for H&M," said Summerville, who apparently "scoured" Swedish shops to find Lisbeth's look for the film. In an interview with Vogue, star Rooney Mara -- who plays Salander in the Fincher film -- revealed that pre-production on 'Dragon Tattoo' involved two days of wardrobe tests with 26 different looks for the iconic computer hacker. The Lisbeth clothing line will debut on Nov. 28 in Paris, before going onsale at H&M stores worldwide on Dec. 14. 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' hits theaters on Dec. 21. [via The Telegraph UK] [Top Photo: Sony/Columbia Tri-Star] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED

The 9 Best Women's Sports Movies In Honor of The Mighty Macs

This weekend, Carla Gugino and Ellen Burstyn storm the multiplex with The Mighty Macs, an inspiring action drama about how women’s basketball coach Cathy Rush (Gugino) trained a small Catholic college team to unlikely victory in the ’70s. In celebration of this upcoming show of cinematic she-sportsmanship, Movieline has compiled (what we consider to be) the nine best women’s sports movies. National Velvet (1944) Director: Clarence Brown Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney and Donald Crisp Sport: Horse racing Why It Is Awesome: A 12-year-old Elizabeth Taylor stars as Velvet Brown, a spunky tomboy who comes into possession of an equally vivacious horse, Pie, and trains him for the Grand National steeplechase with the help of a hired hand, Mi (Mickey Rooney). After an unexpected turn of events, Velvet takes the place of her jockey and wins the race to the delight of the public who declares her a national treasure. Although Taylor’s star-making film isn’t as high-impact as the other sports films on its list, it features a fearless female willing to risk injury and exhaustion for victory for her precious Pie. Ice Castles (1978) Director: Donald Wrye Stars: Lynn-Holly Johnson, Robby Benson and Colleen Dewhurst Sport: Figure skating Why It Is Awesome: Scoff all you want but if you can’t be inspired by a beautiful, figure-skating heroine who must re-learn her passion after losing eyesight — only to perform a flawless program thanks to the support of her loved ones — then, I don’t know what to do. Other than to say that a packed arena will probably never stomp their feet in unison to get you on the ice so that they can adoringly hurl flowers at you. A League of Their Own (1992) Director: Penny Marshall Stars: Geena Davis, Lori Petty and Tom Hanks Sport: Baseball Why It Is Awesome: Comedy, drama, sibling tension, Tom Hanks playing an alcoholic, historical significance, Madonna, Rosie O’Donnell in a skirt — this charming Penny Marshall feature about the All-American Girls’ Professional Baseball League has it all. Even though we care more about spirit and fortitude on this list than actual “wins,” it’s worth noting that A League of Their Own is the most successful movie ranked here, having grossed over $130 million worldwide.